"The Woman In Black" new cast

"The Woman In Black" new cast

The long running thriller, The Woman in Black has a new cast at the Fortune Theatre: Michael Burrell & Dominic Marsh

Michael Burrell's recent London stage credit includes "The Mousetrap" at the St Martin's Theatre. He has appeared in more than 20 films and numerous television programmes, the most recent includes Kavanagh QC & EastEnders.

Dominic Marsh has worked on several productions for the Open Air Theatre, Regent's park in the last couple of years including: Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, HMS Pinafore, Taming of the Shrew & A Midsummer Night's Dream.

This ghost story written by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill, opened at the Fortune Theatre on 7 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.

The Woman in Black is currently booking to 1 Sep 2007