Casting for Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black returning to Glasgow subsequent month on the Theatre Royal has been introduced. The manufacturing will star Malcolm James as Arthur Kipps and Mark Hawkins as The Actor.
Malcolm James returns to The Woman in Black having first performed Arthur Kipps on a UK Tour after which on the Fortune Theatre. His different West End credit embrace The Mousetrap at St. Martin’s Theatre and Volpone on the National Theatre. His on-screen credit embrace HBO’s My Dinner with Herve, Secret Invasion on Disney+, the BBC’s Doctors and EastEnders, ITV’s Coronation Street and The Bill. On radio he has been heard on Letters to an Icon, The History Man and a number of other afternoon dramas all on BBC Radio 4.
Mark Hawkins first performed The Actor in The Woman in Black on the Fortune Theatre and The Madinat Theatre. His different theatrical credit embrace The Railway Children at Kings Cross Theatre, Julius Caesar at The Globe, the UK tour of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the worldwide tour of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. His tv credit embrace HBO’s The Nevers and ITV’s Vera.
The tour solid is accomplished by Jon de Ville (The Sound of Music UK Tour, Netflix’s Scoop, BBC’s Strike) as understudy Arthur Kipps and Dominic Price (The Woman in Black) as understudy The Actor.
Over 33-years THE WOMAN IN BLACK performed over 13,000 performances within the West End and has been seen by over 7-million individuals within the UK. In June 2019 the manufacturing celebrated its 30th Anniversary in London’s West End with a particular gala efficiency.
Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel tells the story of a lawyer obsessive about a curse that he believes has been solid over his household by the spectre of a ‘Woman in Black’. He engages a younger actor to assist him inform his story and exorcise the worry that grips his soul. It begins innocently sufficient, however as they delve additional into his darkest reminiscences the borders between make-believe and actuality start to blur and the flesh begins to creep.
Following a Christmas manufacturing in 1987 at a pub in Scarborough, THE WOMAN IN BLACK was dropped at Hammersmith’s Lyric Theatre in January 1989. Reviews had been sufficiently encouraging (other than The Independent, who regretted the manufacturing’s lack of ability to include a reside canine) to warrant a West End run. Its West End tour began on the Strand (now Novello) Theatre in March and moved to the Playhouse in April, lastly lodging on the Fortune on June 7, 1989.
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