The Woman in Black is a haunting tale told by 2 characters who invoke the audience’s imagination to create a world of fear and confusion. Starring Joshua Marcantel, Nicholas Kattar & Carol Crittenden
October 20, 2006 (Press Release) --
The Woman in Black
Saturday Oct. 21 or 28.
at Pax Amicus Castle
For tickets, directions or more information please go to http://www.paxamicus.com or call (973) 691-2100 (9am-3pm).
Tix - $20
THE PLOT:
Arthur Kipps, a middle-aged solicitor, hires the services of a professional actor to help him re-enact - and thereby hopefully exorcise - a ghostly event which befell him many years with horrifyingly tragic results.
His story revolves around Eel Marsh House which stands tall, gaunt and isolated, surveying the endless flat salt marshes 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. 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 cannot, or will not, give him answers – they refuse to talk about the woman in black, or even to acknowledge her existence. Kipps must try to complete his work while he slowly discovers what happened at Eel Marsh House. Through several terrifying experiences, Kipps slowly learns the truth – and the woman in black’s 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 story or tale of terror, yet the events build up to a horrifying climax. It relies on atmosphere, a vivid sense of place, on hints and glimpses and suggestions of what is shadowy, heard and sometimes only half-seen, to chill the audience’s blood to the marrow.
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.
Saturday Oct. 21 or 28.
at Pax Amicus Castle
For tickets, directions or more information please go to http://www.paxamicus.com or call (973) 691-2100 (9am-3pm).
Tix - $20
THE PLOT:
Arthur Kipps, a middle-aged solicitor, hires the services of a professional actor to help him re-enact - and thereby hopefully exorcise - a ghostly event which befell him many years with horrifyingly tragic results.
His story revolves around Eel Marsh House which stands tall, gaunt and isolated, surveying the endless flat salt marshes 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. 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 cannot, or will not, give him answers – they refuse to talk about the woman in black, or even to acknowledge her existence. Kipps must try to complete his work while he slowly discovers what happened at Eel Marsh House. Through several terrifying experiences, Kipps slowly learns the truth – and the woman in black’s 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 story or tale of terror, yet the events build up to a horrifying climax. It relies on atmosphere, a vivid sense of place, on hints and glimpses and suggestions of what is shadowy, heard and sometimes only half-seen, to chill the audience’s blood to the marrow.
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.
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