The Woman in Black extends booking period - again
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
THE WOMAN in Black has once again extended its booking period at the Fortune Theatre, this time by six months – until January 30, 2010.
The current cast is Andrew Jarvis and Tim Watson.
Previously Posted: The ghostly two-hander, The Woman in Black which opened at the Fortune Theatre in June 1989, has again extended its booking period – this time until July 25, 2009.
The production also has a new cast – Andrew Jarvis and Tim Watson.
Jarvis’ numerous theatre credits include Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II and Love’s Labour’s Lost (all for the RSC); Hamlet, St Joan and Beckett (West End). He was last seen on stage playing Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings.
Watson has previously appeared in The Woman in Black both in the West End and on tour. His television credits include EastEnders, Footballers’ Wives and Casualty.
In Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel, a lawyer is obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a Woman in Black. He therefore, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul.
It all begins innocently enough, but then, as they reach further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds…
Robin Herford directs the two-hander that has been delighting audiences for almost twenty years.