Do You Fear The Dark? review

We're all afraid of something, no use in denying that. Sometimes it can be irrational and other times it can be rational and justified. In Do You Fear The Dark? we are presented with two short stories by theatre company Dramatic Pause that looks at both of these fears. Written by Hayley Lawson-Smith, both stories focus on a mother's relationship with her children in two very different ways.

In the first and stronger story of the pair, Perhaps, a mother (Victoria Haslam) worries about what's become of her two runaway daughters. Her minds races through various scenarios, some of which are humorous, like joining the circus, while others are direr, like being taken by a man under the ruse that he had lost his dog. Her thoughts are acted out on stage by Ariel Simone and Shae O’Reilly as her daughters and Zak Zavod as quite literally everyone else.