Haunted - TNT

I can barely believe it took two people to concoct this badly written, awkwardly staged attempt at a thriller – or that it has attracted a cast of familiar faces from the small screen. Maybe they've come to regret their involvement - one fails to project even as far as the first few rows of the stalls, a couple more swallow their lines as though ashamed to deliver them to a paying audience.
So it's hard to care whether Alex's loft apartment (in a brand new but otherwise empty Southwark block) really does harbour a spooky presence, or whether her reunion dinner party will unleash the forces of darkness instead of rekindling a schoolgirl romance. Frustratingly, the playwrights have unearthed some intriguing historical information about this revitalised London location. But they've failed to incorporate the facts dramatically in their half-hearted prod at the supernatural, and the whole sorry enterprise collapses in a ridiculously contrived muddle of exits and entrances via a lift, a stairway and a not-so-firmly closed door.
Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, WC2 (0844-847 1608). Until June 14. £25-£20