The Woman in Black
From Theatre Breaks
The Woman in Black is celebrated its 21st year in the West End of London, 2010
The Fortune Theatre is now home to The Woman in Black, with a performance combining theatrical illusion and trickery with a disturbing narrative, scaring even the coolest of theatregoers' hearts.
The Woman In Black Theatre Breaks
A night out at The Woman in Black makes an unforgettably exciting reliable and inexpensive theatre break in London.
| Play: The Woman in Black | 
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| starring: Patrick Drury and Antony Eden | |
| Book Now: The Woman in Black theatre breaks | |
| opening night:23 years ago! booking until 15th December 2012 |
"The most terrifying live theatre experience in the world.."
Woman in Black Cast Changes
A new cast is announced for the long running thriller The Woman in Black, at the Fortune Theatre.
From 20th December 2010, Patrick Drury plays Arthur Kipps, and Antony Eden plays The Actor. (replacing Michael Mears & Orlando Wells).
Patrick Drury London stage credits include at the National Theatre: Fram, Major Barbara, The Enchantment, Much Ado About Nothing, Don Juan, Prince of Homburg, Torquato Tasso, Bartholomew Fair, Fuente Ovejuna. In London's West End: The Memory Of Water.
Antony Eden London stage credits include Hangover Square at the Finborough theatre. Theatre outside London includes: Merchant of Venice, Cider with Rosie (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmonds and national tour); Something Wicked This Way Comes (National Theatre of Scotland); Trumpets and Raspberries, Vanity Fair, The Glass Menagerie, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh)
About The Woman In Black
This ghost story written by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill, opened at the Fortune Theatre on 7th June 1989 . (The show first opened at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough in 1987).
It is directed by Robin Herford, designed by Michael Holt with lighting by Kevin Sleep.
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, a feeling 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.
