The West End phenomenon now in it's 20th year. The Woman In Black treads in the footsteps of the classic ghost story following the tradition of Charles Dickens and M.R James of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Eel Marsh House stands tall gaunt and isolated surveying the endless flat saltmarshes beyond the Nine Lives Causeway somewhere on England's bleak East Coast. Here Mrs Alice Drablow lived - and died - alone. Young Arthur Kipps a junior solicitor is ordered by his firm's senior partner to travel up from London to attend her funeral and then sort out all her papers. His task is a lonely one and at first Kipps is quite unaware of the tragic secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows. He only has a terrible sense of unease. And then he glimpses a young woman with a wasted face dressed all in black at the back of the church during Mrs Drablow's funeral and later in the graveyard to one side of Eel Marsh House. Who is she? Why is she there? He asks questions but the locals not only cannot or will not give him answers - they refuse to talk about the woman in black or even to acknowledge her existence at all. So Arthur Kipps has to wait until he sees her again and she slowly reveals her identity to him - and her terrible purpose.
