Ghost from a Perfect Place

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Ghost from a Perfect Place is the third stage play by Philip Ridley. It premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in London in 1994. The part of Travis Flood was played to much acclaim by the veteran, classical actor John Wood.

The play caused a great deal of controversy at its première due to a scene where an old East London gangster, played by Wood, is tortured by a gang of girls. The theatre critic of The Guardian, Michael Billington, described the play as "pornographic." As with most of Ridley's work, however, the critical response was deeply divided, with Sheridan Morley describing it as "a masterpiece" and John Peter, of The Sunday Times, declaring, "Ridley's work is an acquired taste and it looks like I'm getting it."

This play, along with Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney and The Fastest Clock In The Universe are now generally regarded as seminal works in the development of the so called in-yer-face theatre that emerged in Britain during the mid-1990s.