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The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre.
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 then sort out all her
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 to one side of Eel Marsh
House.
Who is she? Why is she there? He asks questions, but the
locals not only cannot or will not give him answers - they
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. It is not a
horror story or a tale of terror, yet the events build up to a
horrifying climax and instil a sense of horror. It relies on
atmosphere, a vivid sense of place, on hints and glimpses and
suggestions, on what is shadowy, heard and sometimes only
half-seen, to chill the reader's blood to the marrow and make
reading the book alone at night inadvisable for the
faint-hearted.
The Woman In Black was first performed at the
theatre-by-the-sea in Scarborough back in 1987. The original
production received rave reviews, paving the way for future
productions throughout the country. It reached the West End in
1989 where it has been a major audience puller ever since. Its
success has subsequently reached a global level, having spread
to the US, South America and through to the Tokyo theatre
scene, and beyond.
Unanimously acclaimed by the critics and now celebrating over
14 years in the West End, The Woman In Black combines the
power and intensity of live theatre with the cinematic quality
of film noir.
Running Time: 1h50ADDRESS
Fortune Theatre
Russell Street
London WC2B 5HH -
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TRAVEL
Nearest Underground: Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line)
Turn Right from Covent Garden tube towards Covent Garden
Plaza. Turn left around the Plaza and follow it round, taking
the first left down Russell Street by The Royal Opera House.
The Fortune Theatre is on Russell Street just past the Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane.
Rail:
Charing Cross - Northern line north to Leicester Square,
Piccadilly line east to Covent Garden
Kings Cross/St Pancras - Piccadilly line west to Covent Garden
Paddington - Bakerloo line south/east to Piccadilly Circus,
Piccadilly line east to Covent Garden
Victoria - Victoria line north to Green Park, Piccadilly line
east to Covent Garden
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line west to Covent Garden
Marylebone - Bakerloo line south/east to Piccadilly Circus,
Piccadilly line east to Covent Garden
Waterloo - Northern line north to Leicester Square, Piccadilly
line east to Covent Garden
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