Charlie Lewis 4P.
Woman in black play review.
Plot
- 9
Acting
-8
Direction
-8
Interpretation of script
-7
Costume design
-8
Lighting
-8
Sound
-9
Performance space
-8
The play we went to watch was called ‘The Woman In Black.’ The playwright was by Stephen Mallatratt in the The New Victoria Theater and we watched this on the 1st February 2010 I thought that the play was very clever in which they directed the whole play.
The play basically is this old man called Kipps who wants to tell people his story about this woman who lost her child and sister in a horse and trap accident in the marshes. The actor and Kipps swap roles, as Kipps dose not understand how to make his three-hour story interesting. She wasted away from the inside out ad became sallowed and pale faced. As they are acting the woman in black mysteriously turns up during the story but coincidentally at just the right time. These happenings keep occurring. During the end scenes the actor is playing `Kipps after everything is sorted out all the deeds of the lady who died he gets married and they go for a walk in the park their son shows interest in the horse and trap that goes around the park. His wife and son go for a ride until suddenly the actor sees the woman in black. Before he knows it the horse and trap gets rammed into a tree the child instantly dies and the wife is seriously injured and soon dies from multiple injuries. What the actor thinks that this is the surprise Kipps has been talking about until Kipps explains that his surprise was that he learned his lines.
