In the same year he played a film director, Ben Prosser, in John Osborne's self-immolating Watch It Come Down, and the ghost of a Czech communist cabinet member, Josef Frank, in Howard Brenton's Weapons of Happiness, superbly directed by David Hare, the first commissioned play in the new National on the South Bank.
But make sure there are no ghosts in the fucking medicine cabinet!" After a week of whirling around the mall, all I wanted was a mother and father who inspected what I wore to school, made me lumpy purple jelly sandwiches for lunch, and read to me at night.
Ask the donkey-jacketed ghost of Michael Foot! Back to the shadow cabinet.
But the brooding tone, clever use of lighting and snatches of video, which make it appear as if the cabinets harbour ghosts and the ledgers are splattered with blood, combine to create an intense 70 minutes driven by Jamie Ballard's wounded Thyestes and Nick Fletcher's Atreus.
The Dalai Lama is now in Mussoorie, where he has set up a ghost of a government with 4 of his 6 cabinet members.
By the week's end, readers of the right-leaning press would have been forgiven for assuming that Flowers had a seat at the shadow cabinet table, doubtless sandwiched between Len McCluskey and the ghost of Karl Marx.
Restaged here, her cabinet of hairy curiosities is troubling and arresting, reflecting the ghost of a man who spent his life literally splitting hairs.
With the appointment of Bill Richardson as the next secretary of commerce one of the less buzzed-about cabinet choices so far Mr Obama seems to have erased the ghosts of Ohio and committed to NAFTA.
Yet after traipsing from Bombay to Boston, through hundreds of candle-lit séance rooms with their elaborate "spirit cabinets," where glowing apparitions would appear and objects fly, what the ghost hunters mostly found was fraud.
