The Woman in Black (2013)

The Woman in Black (2013)

A Ghost Story by Susan Hill
Adapted by Stephan Mallatratt

Based on the 1987 West End Production and still currently playing at the Fortune Theatre.

‘A man walks into a run-down Victorian theatre to tell his story…’

Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house’s sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman dressed all in black at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold. This feeling is deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black – and her terrible purpose. Years later, as an old man, he recounts his experiences to an actor in a desperate attempt to exorcise the ghosts of the past. The play unfolds around the conversations of these two characters as they act out the solicitor’s experiences on Eel Marsh all those years ago.

A New production by One World Actors Centre
Performed at Boxhill College in Kuwait, October (2013)

Directed by Hamad Al Jenaie
Produced by Alison Shan Price MBE

Featuring:
Brian McLaughlin as Arthur Kipps
Yousef Al Nasser as The Actor