The woman in black

[magic_pea]

Last night was the scariest night of my young teenage life. I went to my local theatre, The Wycombe Swan, and saw The Woman In Black. It's scarier than any movie i've ever seen (mind you the scariest movie i've seen is the exorcist), and I would not see it again - it was truly petrifying stuff! Has anybody else seen it? Or has anybody else seen a very scary play/performance in the theatre? Do tell!

Oh, and if you want more info on The Woman In Black, go here (http://www.thewomaninblack.com)

[Cjw]

How rare!! My local therter is the swan as well :eek:


Anyway,our school are taking us to see it as part of drama GCSE...Any chance of some details of the plot?

[jimeh]

He he I went to see that way back 2 years ago.

It was friggin amazing and I have to say it scared me thoroughly at some times, especially near the end.

[magic_pea]

Plot? Ok then! This is very basic mind you, because I don't want to go into too much detail:

This guy has a terrifying story, and he wants the public to know about it, so he gets in contact with this young actor guy so that it can be seen, and the actor adapts the story so it can be acted out, and most of the play is us seeing them act out the story. The guy who has the scary story to tell is one of those blokes who sorts out receipts and papers and stuff for people, and this is the very basic idea of what happens (I won't give anything away mind you!) The guy has to go to this woman's funeral and then sort out her papers and stuff. It is way across some place which is classic horror story material, foggy marshes, towns people who don't speak of anything that happens because apparently it's so horrifying, and, of course, a big spooky mansion, with a door deep within it that leads to a...now that would be telling wouldnt it? At the funeral the guy sees a woman dressed in black, and afterwards tries to follow her because she looked so distressed and pale. He can't find her, but trapeses into a (you guessed it) grave yard, where he meets her again. The guy keeps getting spooked, and he finds out more and more about the tragic secrets of the woman who used to live at the mansion (the woman who's papers and receipts he's sorting out). The play gets freakier and freakier, and trust me, you will be scared if you go, even if you reckon nothing scares you.

There's a lot more I want to say but I don't want to give it away! Heh heh.

[strangeperky]

omg yes. this is some seriously scary sh**. i couldn't sleep for a LONG time after seeing it - i kept expecting to see that freaky woman grinning at me every time i opened my eyes.

mind you, this was around the same time i started getting into the ghosts on the Queen Mary and stuff, so I had John Peder 'following' me around too.

i'm so fascinated by ghosts and ghost stories and other spooky stuff, but damn...it freaks me out.

[magic_pea]

Yeah, the program for the performance has several ghost stories in it, and they aren't so much scary as cool to know. Like a guy who appears in his dressing room mirror sometimes, an unidentified pair of hands that help people into their stage positions and at times hinder backstage arrangements and once pinched an acctresses' arse! But my favourite story out of them all, was the story of the butterflies at <Theatre's name here>. This guy wanted to use a ballet scene in a production he was putting on, and made a massive painted butterfly but he died or something, and so his son took over as director, and removed the butterfly scene and backdrop. Since then, there have been cases of butterflies determining deaths and successes in productions. For example, a man died in his dressing room, and a dead butterfly was found outside of dressing room 6 a day before, and 3 days before the death of a janitor who had worked at the theatre for many years, 3 dead butterflies were found together. Whereas in a successful production of Alladin at the theatre, a butterfly came down and perched on an actor's shoulder during perofrmance, and the production was a great success. Sorry about the vagueness of the tales, I'm just telling what I can remember from the program last night! :D

[strangeperky]

what wild stories! haunted theatres are tres cool. i've been to the bird cage in tombstone, az, and it's freaky as hell.

i'd love to see 'the woman in black' on stage. i've only seen the video version of the tv adaptation.

[magic_pea]

My god, I'm the sure the video's scary, but believe me, it's nothing like actually being there. The video and the play are completely different; for one thing, you can't pause the play and walk out on it like a video!:D But dude, I was at the back of the stalls, and the majorly loud sounds come from there, so it was even more scary for me when the screaming starts to kick in...

[Cjw]

Sounds interesting.....can`t wait to see it now :cool:

[trenowden]

i saw it about a month ago, it scared the http://www.weebls-stuff.com/forums/images/icons/crap.gif out of me!

[lellykelly]

OMG!!!!!!!!! ok....*breathes* i have seen the woman in black twice with my drama class! we went to see it in Covent Garden in the Fortune Theatre! It is the most scariest thing i have ever seen. When she walks down the isle....omg...i couldn't even look at her i had to close my eyes. I love it so much though. It is so absolutley amazing that its ridiculous! There is also a film of it too, i havn't seen it but i want to. When the trinket starts playing music too, ohhh god and that door....wjhuict78vghvxkc! I can't even explain! lol but yeh i love it alot:)

[magic_pea]

Mmm, I can't believe that scaring the shit out of students is part of education now? :D Oh, I almost forgot, after the performance had finished everyone was outside waiting for the lift to come down so we could get into the car park. Behind us was a large metallic door...SLAM!! We all jumped and our hearts skipped a beat, but it was funny anywho! Also, just a tip on how scary the play actually was - there were paramedics on hand (obviously for heart attacks) and they were sitting right infront of us.

[Cjw]

Our drama teacher has already told us that we will have sleepless nights over it (Always thought our school was evil!);)

[magic_pea]

Mu-ha-ha. I hope this thread is still running after you've seen it, you can enlighten us with the skid marks in your pants!

[hopperwithazing]

Last year we took a school trip to see a bunch of short plays for halloween . Most of them were a little goofy , like the rider of sleepy hollow and the neckalce and such. Then they did the monkey's paw, which usually doesn't scare me , but i was scared out of my mind. For those of you wwho don't know the story, this family gets a monkey's paw ( can't quite remember how) that grants three wishes, but they are warned that it will do harm and you have to be careful what you wish for. They ignore that and the son wishes for 200 pounds. The next day he gets in an accident at work and they are conpensated with 200. The mom wishes for him to come back. So he does. At this part inthe play they have this door that you can see shadows through and all these strobe lights and creepy music and he's screaming MOTHER. i was sitting in the front row trying not to pee my pants. it was SO fun!

[magic_pea]

Hehe I had to read that in English once. It seemed...slightly scary. The way you put it though, it sounds scary! does he come back as a zombie or something? I don't remember.

[Magpie]

saw it about two years back for the GCSE course I was doing.

fucking scary.

the audio was amazing, the eirie sound of the music box and the blood curdling scream.

any of you unlucky enough to be sitting near the aisle as she walks past in the second half?

also the way she shakes dementedly in the rocking chair back and forth

half my class couldn't sleep cause of nightmares

[hopperwithazing]

not exactly a zombie. He was like, mutilated and killed in the accident, and they wished that he was still living...so basically it was this gruesome thing that was trying to get her to put it back to rest.

[magic_pea]

Originally posted by Magpie

also the way she shakes dementedly in the rocking chair back and forth

Yep, that was possibly one of the scariest parts - that's when you find out what's been making the "thump thump" noise all along...

[queenofself]

eek i remember going on a school trip to see that in london once. i wouldnt walk back home on my own afterwards when the coach dropped us off at school. i had to get a lift off someone.

i can still picture the swampy path in my head. creepy creepy.

[Greg]

I went to London two years ago and had the privilege of viewing this play.

Scared me shitless.

[lellykelly]

The rocking! geez, one of the times i saw it she fell of the chair! You couldnt really tell if it was supposed to happen or not but god she goes crazy! at the end where you just see her face...gah....

[alsie boo]

my eldest sister went to go see that a few years ago and assured me it was terrifying, so she lent me the book and that didn't scare me one bit. i was quite dissapointed. i'll have to go see it

[magic_pea]

I know people who've read the book, and they've told me it isn't scary...I think that you can tell from the comments made that the stage adpated version is pretty scary though Alsie (and from your sister!).

Good/bad news in everybody! They're making a woman in white! :D Ah - I shouldn't...but I will!

[Piedude]

I saw this play yesterday, and its enough to freak a lot of people out. Anyone else seen it?

[Seraph]

Ive never heard of it before.. Care to describe it to us? and why it freaked you out? :)

[Flea]

Sounds like a porno

[Piedude]

Its a play from like the 20's or something, about an old man that wants to tell people his story and hires a young actor to help make it watchable, so they play it out. Its a ghost story, and there are bits that will easily freak you out...and its got a twist.

[lellykelly]

There is already a thread on this with more comments in it...
www.weebls-stuff.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6989:)

[a secret slut]

IV SEEN IT IV SEEN IT
ITS GREAT AND SCARY AND FUNNY
when did you see it?!

[donkey_pie]

I saw it last halloween. I really want to go again. It scared the heck of out me, and I'm sure it would again. I was literally hiding behind my coat, and I jumped too many times to count!

[Mittwoch]

year 8 sees that, one of my friends jumped on to the boy next to her and my other friend almost broke her boyfriends hand!

[jellybelly]

It is amazing i loved it when i saw it. I studied it and there was something about it i really liked. I then got the chance to go see it and there is something about it that is really creepy, but i love stuff like that and i'm a horror movie freak. The best bit is when she come from the back of the theatre, it may have been different when you saw it but it's cool. Thumbs up!

[Marlowe]

I have to say when I saw it it was flobbing great. Not many jump out of your seat moments (at least for me) but the atmosphere was genuinely unnerving.

[a secret slut]

i only saw it like a week ago, i think last week actually :rolleyes: hhmmm
anyway i was surrounded by people who where all screaming, i found it scary but i was in histerics most of the time, even wen people werent screaming i found it funny, i guess partly because i had the teachers sitting behind me who all, bar one, had seen it before, we went into london to see it, the theatre and the coach where both really cramped and it doesnt help if your as tall as me, but it was all worth it to see my friends scared :D
oh and also the play was great

[ComradeRed]

Sounds interesting, I must go see it.

[CrazyBobby]

Oh i saw that last week with my school trip and scare the xxxx out of me.

[Tweekish]

I saw it in London about 5 years ago with my mum, the sound of the creaking rocking chair kept me awake for days, and the bit at the end? Oh man, I think I aged about 10 years and will die a premature death...
It scared the crap out of me!