write a review of the woman in black as a member of the audience

The part of the old man was played by Michael Burrel who has had a long and varied career as an actor appearing in 'casualty' and 'eastenders'! the part of the actor in the play was played by Dominic Marsh who studied Drama and music at the university of Birmingham and the royal acadamy of music.

The woman in black herself was played by Nathalie Bloch although in the programme she is under Vision Productions. She herself was also a main part of the play

I believe that all the actors in the play were brilliant as they adapted to their characters really well considering it was a play within a play and i often got confused.

The main theme in the play was revenge jenette humfrye (the woman in black) is vengeful of her sister because her sister adopted her son, so she tries to make everyone go through the pain she went through by punishing them that is why nobody talks of eel marsh house in crythin gifford

The only other production i have ever seen is sinbad and as i was a small child i thought it was kind of scary because this pirate man came up to me and said he didnt like smiling children like me so i was kinda freaked out.

This part of my review is on the effects e.g lighting, sound, set design and costume.

 I thought that the lighting worked extremely well considering the different aspects in the play because in the beginning the house lghts stayed on untill both actors were onstage to resemble an empty theatre then they dimmed when they went into the play within the play and when the went back to normal when the actors came out of the play within a play. I also noticed that the lights were brighter on the woman in black when she appeared all the lighting was down to Kevin sleep.

The wardrobe for the production was quiet small and most of the costume changes involved changing only a jacket or scarf onstage to show changes of charecter the wardrobe was onstage and it was a coatrack with coats on it.

The special effects and sound i thought was the best compared to plays i have seen because no matter what the sound was coming from the back of the auditorium which made all the audience members turn around there were sounds for almost everything including talking and trains,the sound of the blood curdling scream was very real and very effective i think all the cues for sound were picked up brilliantly the sound in the production was all perfect because of Caroline Stroud.

The set design was pretty basic as it was supposed to be in an old theatre but there was also some complexity to it as there was also two more parts to the stage behind gauze, representing parts of eel marsh house.

To conclude my review of the 'woman in black' i will say that i have never seen a production as spine chilling  and scary as this and i would definately LOVE to see it again.