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How does the play of the ‘The Woman in Black’ build tension to scare the audience?
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How does the play of the 'The Woman in Black' build tension to scare the audience? The Novel 'The Woman in black' written by Susan Hill then adapted by Stephen Mallatratt with a current performance in The Fortune Theatre in London. The tension is built up by numerous techniques, for example sound effects, lighting, punctuation, how the actor plays the part, the uses of pauses and silence, the climax and anticlimax and the words that the actors choose to use. In the production that I saw in London the adaptation was a very successful one. At the start in the 'adaptors notes' the adaptor refers to "darkness being a powerful ally of terror" which gives us a clue that lighting may be a key aspect on the way that the tension is built up and may play an important part of the play. Sound effects are one of the ways the adaptor uses...
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