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* AndIMustScream: Every scene transition starts with the set's outline going red and an ear-curdling scream.
** Also, the foxes throughout the play.
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* Artificial Intelligence: [[Creator/{{Amazon}} Alexa]] is used as a major plot point. [[spoiler: It also foreshadows the fact that Sam is dead. While originally PlayedForLaughs, the fact that Alexa wouldn't hear a ''dead man'' is obvious in hindsight.]]
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* ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: How do you sit around until 2:22 AM to catch a ghost? You get shit-faced.
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* ArcNumber: 2:22. It's the time that Jenny hears the footsteps in Phoebe's room every night. [[spoiler: It's also revealed to be, in UK time, the time that Sam tried to call Jenny while on his trip, but he dies in the effort.]]
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* Angst: Fuels most of the tension throughout the play. Every member of the cast has it in a way.

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* Angst: {{Angst}}: Fuels most of the tension throughout the play. Every member of the cast has it in a way.
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* Angst: Fuels most of the tension throughout the play. Every member of the cast has it in a way.
** Jenny: Sam not believing her that the house is haunted.
** Sam: Trying to prove to an non-listening Jenny that it ''isn't'' haunted.
** Lauren: Everyone else marrying all the good people, and her getting "what's left".
** Ben: Believing Jenny, but also having his story of past-lives be torn to shreds by Sam.
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* AndIMustScream: Every scene transition starts with the set's outline going red and an ear-curdling scream.
** Also, the foxes throughout the play.
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* AllStarCast: People who have played in the show include:
** Music/LilyAllen
** Creator/MandipGill
** Music/JayMcGuinness
** Creator/TomFelton
** Music/MattWillis
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* AllStarCast: People who have played in the show include:
** Music/LilyAllen
** Creator/MandipGill
** Music/JayMcGuinness
** Creator/TomFelton
** Music/MattWillis
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* AllMythsAreTrue: At least, those pertaining to ''ghosts'', anyway.
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* AllAreEqualInDeath: Averted. The play makes multiple points about the way spirits travelling from the Heaven or the Underworld, must travel through a portal. Most don't make it.
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* AHouseDivided: As tensions rise, the house quickly becomes this.
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* AfterlifeAngst: What Frank (the Widow's late husband) [[spoiler: and later Sam]] are said to have.
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* AFoggyDayInLondonTown: The play takes place on a foggy night in Greater London.
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* AFamilyAffair: This starts as this trope, though it quickly unravels to include their friends and ''their'' families. Even the widow's family becomes a plot point.

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The play follows a family who has just moved into a new house which used to be owned by an old widow. However, while the husband is completely happy with the house, the wife senses something afoot. Footsteps and crying coming from her infant daughter's bedroom at 2:22 AM every night. Her husband, Sam, thinks she's going crazy, so she invites two of her friends over for a dinner party and convinces them to stay until 2:22 AM to see it for themselves. Things go south fast, and the once cozy house becomes a terrifying night.

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The play follows a family who has just moved into a new house which used to be owned by an old widow. However, while the husband is completely happy with the house, the wife senses something afoot. Footsteps and crying coming from her infant daughter's bedroom at 2:22 AM every night. Her husband, Sam, thinks she's going crazy, so she invites two of her friends over for a dinner party and convinces them to stay until 2:22 AM to see it for themselves. Things go south fast, and the once cozy house becomes a terrifying night.
night. The show is currently on a UK tour throughout 2024.

The website for the show can be found here: https://222aghoststory.com/
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* ActorSwap: Nearly every production, excluding the 2024 UK Tour, has different actors, ranging from Music/LilyAllen, to Actor/TomFelton.

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* ActorSwap: Nearly every production, excluding the 2024 UK Tour, has different actors, ranging from Music/LilyAllen, to Actor/TomFelton.Creator/TomFelton.
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* ActorSwap: Nearly every production, excluding the 2024 UK Tour, has different actors, ranging from Music/LilyAllen, to Actor/TomFelton.
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* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: [[spoiler: Sam. It's later revealed that he was dead before the show even started.]]
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* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: [[spoiler: Sam. It's later revealed that he was dead before the show even started.]]
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* ActionMom: Jenny takes on this role to protect her Phoebe from whoever is haunting the house.

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* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Sam, Jenny, and Pheobe.

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* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Sam, Jenny, and Pheobe.Phoebe.


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* ActBreak: There is an interval in the show, between the scene of Phoebe's teddy becoming drenched in white spirit, and the drinking game scene.
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* AbsenceOfEvidence: This is why Sam doesn't believe ghosts exists, [[spoiler: despite being one himself]].
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* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Sam, Jenny, and Pheobe.
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Sam. This is the twist ending.]]

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Sam. This is the twist ending.]]]]
* HauntedHouse: Used as the setting for the play, though the haunting is only seen towards the end.
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[[caption-width-right:1000:2024 UK Tour Poster]]
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2:22 A Ghost Story is a thriller by Danny Robins which had its world premier in the Noël Coward Theatre in London in 2021.

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2:22 2:22: A Ghost Story is a thriller by Danny Robins which had its world premier in the Noël Coward Theatre in London in 2021.
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* DeadAllAlong: [[Sam. This is the twist ending.]]

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* DeadAllAlong: [[Sam.[[spoiler: Sam. This is the twist ending.]]
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2:22 A Ghost Story is a thriller by Danny Robins which had its world premier in the Noël Coward Theatre in London in 2021.

The play follows a family who has just moved into a new house which used to be owned by an old widow. However, while the husband is completely happy with the house, the wife senses something afoot. Footsteps and crying coming from her infant daughter's bedroom at 2:22 AM every night. Her husband, Sam, thinks she's going crazy, so she invites two of her friends over for a dinner party and convinces them to stay until 2:22 AM to see it for themselves. Things go south fast, and the once cozy house becomes a terrifying night.

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*DeadAllAlong: [[Sam. This is the twist ending.]]

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