Live Theatre Review - The actors and director of The "Woman In Black" had complete power and control over the audience's reactions and emotions.

... GCSE Paper 1 Unit 2 Task 3- Live Theatre Review. The actors and director of The "Woman In Black" had complete power and control over the audience's reactions and emotions. For our Drama GCSE we went to see "The Woman in Black", on Monday 1st December 2003. 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. The play explores the issues of the supernatural and things beyond

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