On Thursday, Friday an Saturday 12-14 October 2017, the Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg city put on a 3-performance run of The Woman in Black by Susan Hill and adapted by Stephen Mallatratt.
After its record-breaking run at the Fortune Theatre in London’s West End, Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story played at the Grand Théâtre. While, in some respects, the production showed its age, it still carried an aura of mysticism and awe.
With primarily two actors playing the entire make-up of characters, the plot follows a lawyer who engages an actor to help tell his story in which he travelled to Scotland to sort out the estate of a client who had recently died. She had lived in a spooky house by herself and none of the locals would talk about it at all. He visits the house and even spends the night there, but what he experiences he could not explain, at least not at first.
The stage setting was dark and eerie, with light and sound effects being used spectacularly to build the tension and to create the horror effects, to which there were plenty of screams from the audience.
By the end, the audience could see how this production became the second longest-running non-musical play in West End history, after The Mousetrap.
