The Women In Black- Performace

This is a play that I have wanted to watch for some time. After booking the tickets to go and see it I looked through some reviews to see what other people had said about it. From looking at these I found that the reviews were very varied, from this I had some reservations as to what the play would be like. I had also watched the film earlier this year and wanted to see how they would represent the elaborate scenes like the road up to eel marsh house and also the house itself.

The road up to eel marsh house and the marsh surrounding it.

The house that is used in the film for Eel Marsh house

When getting into the theater, before the performance started, this is the way that the stage was set up.

There wasn't any other props added to the front of the stage, apart from some different clothing that was put onto the rail at the side. This clothing was used to show the difference between the characters that one of the actors played and the different stages of the story that the other actors character goes through. There was other scenes set up behind the curtain that rotated for when they were needed as part of the story, but they were also not elaborate. A lot of sound effects were used instead to set a scene or represent something that wasn't there.

This is a page spread out of the program shows the two actors in their different  costumes  worn to show the different stage of the story and the different characters being portrayed.

I really enjoyed this performance, I don't understand the negative reviews that people have given for the performance. The right balance between story and scary. I think the fact that you are not given everything and have to use your imagination to see the scene in your own mind keeps the audience interested throughout the whole of the performance. The actors were brilliant as well creating tension and suspense and interacting with things that weren't physically there.

I found the use of costume interesting as there wasn't whole changes from character to character as the character changes were done on the stage. Although there wasn't a whole outfit change the putting on of a coat, hat, scarf etc. it was clear that there had been a change of character not from just the clothes but the actors portrayal of the character.