The Woman in Black

Synopsis

Fog and creepily haunted houses, supernatural happenings, sea mists and dark stormy nights, lonely funerals and creaking attic doors, all combine in this gripping adaptation of Susan Hill's tense and thrilling story to create a play that taps our primal fears. A grieving lawyer believes a curse has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of the woman in black. In an attempt to exorcise the spirit he engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his story. His plan begins innocently enough, but as the border between reality and fantasy blur, the horror starts and the flesh begins to creep..

Our Review:

19 January 2010

It has been 21 years since Stephen Mallatrat's adaptation of the celebrated Susan Hill novel reached the West End stage.While still running successfully there, this anniversary tour brings the ghost story back out to the regions to frighten a whole new generation of theatre goers - and it is now a set text for schools.

Mr Kipps, a Victorian solicitor, enlists the help of an actor and books a theatre so he can tell his family and friends what happened to him as a young man. The actor takes over the presentation of the piece and becomes Mr Kipps as the young man with Mr Kipps himself taking on the other roles. The story develops around this play within a play, recreating with ever expanding performance techniques what happened when the young man ha...

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Gemma - 29 September 2010:

I went to the shame showing. It wasn't teenagers Helen it was actually 10 year old children. We got a letter of apology from the Lowry because of this. Because they had not known how old the students were. But being a student and with a class of students at the time i can say yes it was rather annoying but not of the blame of the teenagers. ...

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