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Theatre Breaks - Show Details
Opened: 15 Feb 1989

Booking to: 20 Dec 2008

Performance Times
Mon-Sat 20:00, Mats Tue 15:00, Sat 16:00
Theatre Breaks - Theatre Facilities
Air ConditioningAir Conditioning
Disabled AccessDisabled Access
HearingSystemHearingSystem

Other Facilities

Sign Language Performances. Guide dogs allowed in Box A

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The Woman In Black - Play

Fortune Theatre

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Address
Russell Streeet, London, WC2B 5HH

Tube Stations
Covent Garden


 
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Woman in Black Cast

Woman in Black Cast

Starring: Starring Ben Porter and Sean Baker
Producer: PW Productions
Writer: Stephen Mallatratt from Susan Hill’s novel

A truly scary piece of theatre: a keen young solicitor is sent to execute the estate of a recently deceased woman. He pieces together the details of her strange reclusive life, alone in a remote and mysterious house. Years later, he recounts his experiences, desperate to exorcise the ghosts of the past.

Eel Marsh House stands tall, gaunt and isolated, surveying the endless flat saltmarshes beyond the Nine Lives Causeway, somewhere on England's bleak East Coast. Here Mrs Alice Drablow lived - and died - alone.

Young Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is ordered by his firm's senior partner to travel up from London to attend her funeral and receive the relevant papers. His task is a lonely one, and at first Kipps is quite unaware of the tragic secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows. He only has a terrible sense of unease. And then, he glimpses a young woman with a wasted face, dressed all in black, at the back of the church during Mrs Drablow's funeral, and later, in the graveyard.

Who is she? Why is she there? He asks questions, but the locals refuse to talk about the woman in black, or even to acknowledge her existence, at all. So, Arthur Kipps has to wait until he sees her again, and she slowly reveals her identity to him - and her terrible purpose.

The Woman In Black treads in the footsteps of the classic ghost story, following the tradition of Charles Dickens and M.R James, of Henry James and Edith Wharton.

Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation for the stage remains entirely true to the book itself and uses much of Susan Hill's own descriptive writing and dialogue, while transforming the novel into a totally gripping piece of theatre

Advisory Note: This show is very popular with large numbers of school groups - particularly for performances, Monday to Thursday inclusive. Make sure your school books through Good To See.

 

Press Quotes 

"A truly nerve-shredding experience" - Daily Mail. "Don't go unless you like being scared out of your wits" - Sunday Mirror. 


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