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https://thewomaninblack.pazaz.studio/assets/f12deaef-438d-434e-b0a4-9ecab0b42ae5&amp;format=webp 2x" class="object-contain mx-auto h-10 md:h-10 w-52 md:w-44 lg:w-56" src="https://thewomaninblack.pazaz.studio/assets/f12deaef-438d-434e-b0a4-9ecab0b42ae5&amp;format=webp" data-v-763ad508><p class="text-primary !mb-1" data-v-763ad508>Neil Norman <span class="text-primary" data-v-763ad508>,<br data-v-763ad508>5 Jan 2018</span></p><p data-v-763ad508><a href="/about/reviews/test-review" class="!text-white hover:!text-primary" data-v-763ad508>Read more</a></p></div><div class="w-8/12 mx-auto md:mx-0 lg:mx-auto md:w-4/12 lg:w-2/12 px-4 lg:px-2 flex flex-col gap-y-2" data-v-763ad508><img onerror="this.setAttribute(&#39;data-error&#39;, 1)" alt="The Guardian" data-nuxt-img srcset="https://thewomaninblack.pazaz.studio/assets/e8032d6d-7f93-4fee-a9cf-dfdfa15ea862&amp;format=webp 1x, https://thewomaninblack.pazaz.studio/assets/e8032d6d-7f93-4fee-a9cf-dfdfa15ea862&amp;format=webp 2x" 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data-v-763ad508><p class="text-primary !mb-1" data-v-763ad508>David Benedict <span class="text-primary" data-v-763ad508>,<br data-v-763ad508>5 Jan 1998</span></p><p data-v-763ad508><a href="/about/reviews/the-independent" class="!text-white hover:!text-primary" data-v-763ad508>Read more</a></p></div><div class="w-8/12 mx-auto md:mx-0 lg:mx-auto md:w-4/12 lg:w-2/12 px-4 lg:px-2 flex flex-col gap-y-2" data-v-763ad508><img onerror="this.setAttribute(&#39;data-error&#39;, 1)" alt="TimeOut" data-nuxt-img srcset="https://thewomaninblack.pazaz.studio/assets/87b35b14-ec5b-422c-8b27-a440d566a2f4&amp;format=webp 1x, https://thewomaninblack.pazaz.studio/assets/87b35b14-ec5b-422c-8b27-a440d566a2f4&amp;format=webp 2x" class="object-contain mx-auto h-10 md:h-10 w-52 md:w-44 lg:w-56" src="https://thewomaninblack.pazaz.studio/assets/87b35b14-ec5b-422c-8b27-a440d566a2f4&amp;format=webp" data-v-763ad508><p class="text-primary !mb-1" data-v-763ad508>Sam Marlowe <span class="text-primary" 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156 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> INGENIOUS - A JOURNEY INTO FEAR <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>BEN BRANTLEY, NEW YORK TIMES (JANUARY 2020)</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> A REAL TREAT. ENTERTAINMENT AT ITS VERY BEST <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>Daily Telegraph</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> It tightens its grip on the spectator like a medieval instrument of torture. <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>Daily Express 2018</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-
156 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> A REAL THRILL OF HORROR <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>Sunday Times</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> A MASTERPIECE <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>The Guardian</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> A TRULY NERVE-SHREDDING EXPERIENCE! <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>Daily Mail</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-
156 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> DON&#39;T GO UNLESS YOU LIKE BEING SCARED OUT OF YOUR WITS! <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>Sunday Mirror</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> GUARANTEED TO CHILL THE BLOOD <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>Evening Standard</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> ONE OF BRITISH THEATRE&#39;S BIGGEST - AND SCARIEST - HITS! <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72z"></path></svg></blockquote><cite class="not-italic font-light text-sm lg:text-lg uppercase" data-v-763ad508>The Guardian</cite></div><div class="px-12 md:px-6 text-center" data-v-763ad508><blockquote class="text-xl lg:text-2xl uppercase font-medium text-center max-w-lg px-8 mx-auto mb-2" data-v-763ad508><svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-left" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-left" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M0 216C0 149.7 53.7 96 120 96l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-
156 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72zm256 0c0-66.3 53.7-120 120-120l8 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32s-14.3 32-32 32l-8 0c-30.9 0-56 25.1-56 56l0 8 64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 64c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64l-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-32 0-32 0-72z"></path></svg> THE CHILLS ARE IRRESISTIBLY EFFECTIVE...A DELICIOUS SPELL OF MALEVOLENCE AND MENACE <svg class="svg-inline--fa fa-quote-right" style="" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-prefix="fas" data-icon="quote-right" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512" data-v-763ad508><path class="" style="" fill="currentColor" d="M448 296c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64l0-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64l64 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 32 0 32 0 72zm-256 0c0 66.3-53.7 120-120 120l-8 0c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l8 0c30.9 0 56-25.1 56-56l0-8-64 0c-35.3 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It tells the story of Arthur Kipps and his visit to the remote Eel Marsh House to manage the affairs of the deceased owner. As the tale unfolds, it tightens its grip on the spectator like a medieval instrument of torture.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Schooled by the lively Actor (James Byng), Arthur Kipps (Terence Wilton) reads his memoir to relatives, recounting the horrors of his visit. As the play progresses, The Actor becomes Kipps and encounters dreadful events involving dead children, fog, quicksand and a haunted nursery.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Having set up the story in the first half, the second half is wall-to-wall creepiness. Locked doors fly open or scream when touched, an unoccupied rocking chair rolls back and forth, lights go out and fog descends. It is all staged impeccably with amazing sound effects and shocks that make you jump out of your seat.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>But it is the simplicity that impresses. It is profoundly effective and it will scare the living daylights out of you.\u003C/p>","f12deaef-438d-434e-b0a4-9ecab0b42ae5","Neil Norman","2018-01-05",{"id":22,"status":8,"sort":9,"user_created":12,"date_created":23,"user_updated":9,"date_updated":9,"name":24,"slug":25,"rating":26,"short_quote":9,"content":27,"image_logo":28,"citation":29,"publish_date":30},2,"2025-05-27T09:42:18.000Z","The Guardian","the-guardian",0,"\u003Cp>Robin Herford was running the Stephen Joseph theatre in Scarborough when he realised he hadn't spent his entire grant. His boss, Alan Ayckbourn, was off on sabbatical, so Herford decided, what with Christmas coming up, to put on a ghost story that could be staged cheaply and quickly &ndash; not in the main theatre, but in the bar. He asked the venue's resident playwright Stephen Mallatratt to rustle one up, with the proviso that the set and costumes couldn't cost more than &pound;1,000, adding that there was only enough money to pay four actors.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\"He wasn't terribly impressed,\" remembers Herford, 25 years on. \"But he came back a couple of days later and said, 'Have you read Susan Hill's book The Woman in Black?'\" Hill's creepy novella had been published a few years earlier, in 1983. \"I read it overnight and said, 'It's a fantastic story &ndash; but it's got a dozen characters.'\"\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\"I've got an idea about that,\" said Mallatratt. His masterstroke was to make The Woman in Black a play within a play, one that needs just two speaking actors, and a backstage crew of four. Elderly Arthur Kipps brings a ghost story to a young actor; it's the story of something that happened to Kipps 30 years earlier, and the actor turns it into a drama. The older actor plays around half a dozen characters, while the other takes the role of young Kipps, a solicitor in the remote town of Crythin Gifford, who has to visit a mysterious house in the marshes to tie up a dead woman's affairs &ndash; discovering all too late why the townsfolk shrink from the place.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The Woman in Black sold out the first night it was staged, on 12 December 1987, and ran successfully for three weeks. A year later, it moved to the Lyric Hammersmith and finally to the West End, where it has played at the Fortune theatre since 1989. It is now one of the longest-running plays in British theatrical history, currently celebrating its silver anniversary with a parallel national tour. Its popularity has been further boosted by this year's film adaptation, which starred Daniel Radcliffe. Sadly, Mallatratt did not get to see it, having died in 2004.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Term times are particularly busy: The Woman in Black is popular with school groups, since it's part of the curriculum. On the night I attend, the Fortune is full of screaming 14-year-olds, but the play is easily capable of terrifying older viewers, too. Ken Drury, who plays Arthur Kipps in the West End production, relishes the recent memory of a man who gasped \"Fuck's sake!\" as a mysteriously locked door, central to the plot, swu
26ng open.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>So what makes The Woman in Black so frightening? \"The whole theatre is the set,\" explains Herford. \"If I'm watching something scary on the telly or at the cinema, you know it's just an image on a flat screen, and you can shut your eyes.\" From the beginning of the show, however, characters start appearing at the back of the auditorium, leaving the audience constantly feeling something could creep up on them. \"I try to preserve a sense of discomfort,\" adds Herford. \"There's no music playing, and I try to keep the air conditioning cooler than might be comfortable. The audience is slightly keyed-up.\"\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>One of the most unnerving moments comes when Kipps returns to the nursery that lies behind the door and discovers an empty rocking chair &ndash; still in motion. \"It's the little things that get you,\" says Susan Hill. \"Less is always more.\" And, like most of the other effects, it is simply done. \"It's fishing wire,\" says Jon Huyton, the company manager, revealing one of the secrets of a spartan set that amounts to little more than a door, some gauze, a flight of steps, a few pieces of nursery furniture &ndash; and, of course, plenty of dry ice. Sound effects are another crucial ingredient: trains, winds, tolling bells, and bloodcurdling cries all conspire to send the audience's imagination into overdrive. \"We've had screams go off in the wrong place,\" says Huyton. \"That's one to test the boys on stage, because everyone in the audience reacts.\"\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Although the play has remained essentially unchanged since its debut, it is regularly refreshed: each cast lasts for around nine months in the West End. \"Each time I do it,\" says Herford, \"I think, 'This really is a very good play.' And that's quite rare. It's a joy to direct each time, because you can let the new cast have their heads a bit.\"\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Deputy electrician Stephen Derham, who has seen casts come and go, says that one set of actors got through the play in an hour and 45 minutes, while the next cast stretched it to almost two and a half hours. Yet both, he says, \"scared the living bejaysus out of the audience &ndash; and that's the main thing\".\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Although everyone involved in The Woman in Black believes it will run and run, it has a long way to go before it catches up with Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, which has been in the West End for 60 years. Herford admits he has a vested interest in keeping the play fresh: like Hill, he earns a royalty. \"It hasn't made me very rich because it's a very small theatre and it's not a big percentage. But it took my son to Oxford, and it has given me a measure of security few freelance directors can enjoy. We've certainly made the government a phenomenal amount through VAT on tickets, far more than the subsidy Scarborough received.\" Hill adds: \"It's not squillions, but it's a nice pension.\"\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>What of the woman in black herself? Well &ndash; and the spoiler-wary should stop reading this now &ndash; as title roles go, it is certainly one of the West End's strangest. There are no lines, and dance experience is preferred. \"You almost want them to float,\" says Huyton. \"We've just had someone performing it for nine months and she said at the end, 'I will come back, but I've got to do some speaking for a while.'\" Referred to as \"the vision\" by cast and crew, the woman is on stage for mere minutes yet manages to cause mayhem throughout the auditorium. \"From her first entrance, the kids scream like anything,\" says Huyton. \"They go ballistic.\"\u003C/p>","e8032d6d-7f93-4fee-a9cf-dfdfa15ea862","Alex Needham","2012-10-28",{"id":32,"status":8,"sort":9,"user_created":12,"date_created":33,"user_updated":9,"date_updated":9,"name":34,"slug":35,"rating":26,"short_quote":9,"content":36,"image_logo":37,"citation":38,"publish_date":39},3,"2025-05-27T09:43:48.000Z","The Observer","the-observer","\u003Cp>Sunday 8 January -\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Next month James Watkins's film of The Woman in Black will be released. For all the resources on which it can draw, for all that it stars Ciar&aacute;n Hinds, Janet McTeer (I hope the stage has not lost her to the screen) and Daniel Radcliffe, the movie will find it hard to match the bounce-out-of-your-seat impact of the play. Ever since it opened more than 20 years ago, it has produced sounds &ndash; gasps, squeals, shudders, muffled screams &ndash; that are rarely heard in the stalls. Set in a misty Victorian East Anglia, it has glided effortlessly to Vienna and Australia, and translates particularly well in countries such as Japan and Mexico which have a strong tradition of ghost stories. The theatre &ndash; most fleshy of art forms &ndash; is remarkably effective at conveying the spectral. Watching this, with the deliciousness of shared fear, it seems amazing that so few attempts are made to scare audiences.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>
26The genius of Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation of Susan Hill's 1983 novel is that it dares you not to believe in it. It doesn't try to mimic reality; it is diametrically opposed to the special effect. Set in a Victorian theatre, it has only two speaking actors, one of them shifting with the twist of a cap from one character to another. A props basket serves as a pony and trap and as the furniture for a house or office.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It is, like that other lovely potential long-runner The 39 Steps (five years old), a wonderful example of theatre technique on an austerity budget. It generates fear through simple surprises: in a deserted house a rocking chair creaks as if someone has just risen from it; behind a solitary figure a massive shadow steals along the wall. It magnifies fear by showing the terror on an actor's face: fright is contagious. It gives fear another dimension, for like all really good ghost stories The Woman in Black is grounded not in horror but in human pain and loss. The whole world, as contained in an auditorium, becomes threatening.\u003C/p>","d5adfd34-faf0-4c3c-acf5-eb49a18b0a76","Susannah Clapp","2012-01-08",{"id":16,"status":8,"sort":9,"user_created":12,"date_created":41,"user_updated":9,"date_updated":9,"name":42,"slug":43,"rating":44,"short_quote":9,"content":45,"image_logo":46,"citation":47,"publish_date":48},"2025-05-27T09:44:50.000Z","The Independent","the-independent",5,"\u003Cp>Black to the Future\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>David Benedict revisits &lsquo;The Woman in Black&rsquo; at London&rsquo;s Fortune Theatre.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The Woman in Black shows no sign of closing, and with good reason. It&rsquo;s a cracker. Abandon scepticism all ye who enter here.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>What adapter Stephen Mallatraft and director Robin Herford have done is take Susan Hill&rsquo;s eerie ghost story, provide it with a cunningly theatrical frame, exert the inescapable grip of great storytelling and send shock waves through the auditorium with splendid thrills and chills.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>By exposing the process of adaptation, Mallatratt and Herford engage the audience still further, forcing them to do what audiences love best- work. The evening is a textbook example of the willing suspension of disbelief. Instead of sitting back and merely watching the story, we become utterly complicit in its unfolding. We will characters on, filling in the suggestion of the words on the almost bare stage to conjure up the horrors of ghostly Eel Marsh House and its ghastly history. 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