The Woman in Black
The woman in black: a programme for the Pieter Toerien production directed by Marc Urquhart with Neil McCarthy and Robert Whitehead at the Alhambra Theatre, Johannesburg, from 18 December [1992] to 10 April [1993], and at the Theatre on the Bay, Cape Town, from 14 April to 8 May [1993]
Produced by Moira Blumenthal, lighting by Jannie Swanepoel, Montecasino Theatre with Eckard Rabe and Anton Luitingh., Tarryn Wilford, December 2009, Theatre on the Bay Feb 2010.. Lesley Barnard directed the play in 2002 in Port Elizabeth.with Tanya Taylor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black_(play) The Woman in Black is a 1987 stage play, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. The play is based on the book of the same name, which was written in 1983 by Susan Hill. It is notable for only having two actors perform the whole play. It was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, in 1987. The production opened in London's West End in 1989 and is still being performed there, becoming the second longest-running non-musical play in the history of the West End, after The Mousetrap.[1]
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Performance history in South Africa
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