After more than two decades in the West End and 10 national tours, and judging by this latest encounter, Robin Herford's still spine-tingling production isn't ready to lie down just yet.

Mallatratt's play finds lawyer Arthur Kipps hiring an actor to role-play events from years before in an attempt to exorcise ghosts that have haunted him since. These involve a young Kipps being packed off to a desolate country house to oversee a dead woman's affairs, only to have the eponymous woman transform his life. As a dense yarn of illegitimacy, accidental death and revenge from the grave is unveiled, the shocks pile on aplenty for Kipps, whether played by Julian Forsyth or by Antony Eden's actor.