Who Let the Ghosts Out
Production
Who Let the Ghosts Out
As Phears, Dylan Collins played the threat inside Magik Theatre's comic ghost story, calibrating menace for an audience ready to laugh after the scare.
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Review: Magik Theatre’s Delightfully Spooky Play Has A Few Holes
Frame from The Magik Theatre's official Who Let the Ghosts Out video on YouTube.
Editorial Performance Notes
The scare lands on a lighting cue
R.L. Stine's ghost-story world works in the theatre when suspense, reveal, and comic release are arranged as carefully as music.
Phears needs an entrance the audience can feel before it fully sees him. Sound can announce scale; a backlight can hold the face in shadow; stillness can make the other actors’ retreat visible. Once the reveal lands, the actor modulates the danger so younger spectators remain inside the game.
Acid green, ultraviolet purple, fog, and a hard-edged gobo belong to the familiar haunted-house palette, but design does not replace rhythm. The sequence is cue, recognition, reaction, release. If the blackout comes early or the reaction comes late, the ghost loses weight.
Sources for the production record and editorial context: San Antonio review of Magik Theatre's production.