Thrilling stage ghost story returns to the Oxford stage following Covid postponement
The most terrifying live theatre experience you can witness returns to the Oxford Playhouse this summer following its postponement last year at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Woman in Black opens at Oxford Playhouse on Monday 19 July 2021.
Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel tells the story of a lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over his family by the spectre of a ‘Woman in Black’. He engages a young actor to help him tell his story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. It begins innocently enough, but as they delve further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds. The borders between make-believe and reality begin to blur and the flesh begins to creep.
First performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough in 1987, The Woman in Black transferred to the West End in 1989 and has now become the second longest running non-musical play in West End History after The Mousetrap.
Robert Goodale stars as Arthur Kipps (The Woman in Black UK Tour/Washington DC), How To Act (National Theatre of Scotland), Julius Caesar (Sheffield Crucible), Laburnum Grove (Finborough Theatre), The Lady From The Sea (The Rose Theatre), Dr Faustus (Shakespeare Globe), Redcon (Apocalypse Pictures Ltd), Captain Webb (Miramax), Victoria III (Mammouth Screen), Traitors (42 & Twenty Twenty Television), Theresa V Boris (Juniper), Will (TNT), McMafia (BBC/AMC).
Antony Eden plays The Actor (Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (Sonia Friedman Productions), Ten Times Table (Mill at Sonning), A Brief History of Women, Taking Steps (Alan Ayckbourn company, Stephen Joseph Theatre and 59E59 theatre, New York), Derren Brown: Apocalypse (Channel 4), The Landlady, Kevin and Co, Kevin’s Cousins (BBC), The Bill (Carlton).
Antony is also an associate director on The Woman in Black and directs and produces with his own theatre company Dead Letter Perfect. Having been in property development whilst theatre has slept, he is thrilled to be back in theatres performing in, in his opinion, the best play of the past 50 years!
Tickets for The Woman in Black at The Oxford Playhouse start at £10 and are available from the Ticket Office on 01865 305305 or book online at www.oxfordplayhouse.com