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Ghost Writer, Sutton Arts Theatre, Sutton Coldfield

Feb 12 2008 By John Slim

DAVID Tristan's joyously bubbling comedy is splendidly served by a cast working at full throttle.

It's about a writer whose murdered wife comes back, visible and audible only to him. This is Blyth Spirit with more bounds and more edge. It's quick fire and it's very, very, funny, particularly in the second half, when the man invites the murder suspects round to see whether he and the ghost can solve the case.

Before the end, death pays another call.

Ian Cornock is frantically in charge at the heart of the action, with Alison Daly an irresistibly impish invisible presence and Jonathan Goodwin rallying round as the understandably anxious friend and neighbour.

Allan Lane bravely sports a horrendous ginger wig which proves irresistible to the ever-gregarious ghost, Valerie Tomlinson is amusingly and unfalteringly po-faced as Frances, and Jayne Lunn is a bewildered joy as Glenda.

This Joanne Ellis runs production until Saturday.

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