Phoenix/The Ghost Caller reviews " spiked satire and phone spooks
Mike Bartlett's monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes's over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown, flagrantly, with a long drive to the north of England at the start of Mike Bartlett's audio play Phoenix, part of the project Signal Fires conceived by English Touring Theatre and Headlong. His wife came down with Covid and there wa…