WOMAN IN BLACK DRAMA REVIEW ESSAY
Woman in black review. For my Drama GCSE I went to see “The Woman in Black”, on Thursday 26th June 2009. The play was showing at the Fourtune theatre and was based on a book by Susan Hill; which was adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. The “Woman In Black” is about a middle aged solicitor called Arthur Kipps, who years earlier had lost an infant son following some eerie incidents in an English town. In hopes of getting rid of his personal demons and ghosts, he approaches a young actor to turn his written account into a theatre piece (re-enactment. ) It shows all of the happenings with a recently deceased woman called Alice Drableau and her remote, mysterious house. Through various lighting and sound effects this play is made into a scary and mysterious tale, which is; scary. When I first arrived at the theater there was a very dark and mysterious feeling inside, and although there were many people talking in and around the theater before the play began, there was also a deathly silence that you can imagine whilst inside the theatre and that you try to keep away from, hence the reason I never saw anyone on their own for the entire time. Everything inside the theatre you would think of as old fashioned, there was hardly any modern aspects to the theatre, which makes you feel a little uneasy and wary of everything around you. There was two very small bars to purchase small snacks, and even these had very narrow doors and a cold and dark feeling inside them.