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On Tuesday 7 February a group of Drama students had the amazing opportunity to go to the Fortune Theatre in London to see a performance of The Woman in Black. 

It included a 2-hour coach journey there and back that gave the students plenty of time to socialise with one another. The coach was filled with excitement, enjoyment and laughter. The students didn’t only talk to people in their friend group or year group, they spoke to everyone around them which was a pleasant experience.  

Once we reached London, we started pointing out key landmarks and well-known places including The Houses of Parliament, The London Eye and Big Ben. 

The journey back was just as fun if not better than the journey there. There were people singing songs and others just talking. It was a lovely environment to be in, free from any disagreements or arguments; it was filled with positive feelings. 

The performance itself was the highlight of the trip. It was a terrifying, yet thrilling, experience that did a fantastic job of making the audience feel involved. The Fortune Theatre is exceedingly small in comparison to some of the other theatres in London, which is part of what made the performance so astounding. 

The set was very minimalistic and the performance only had three actors. For those of you who have seen or read The Woman in Black you will know that it is a frightful tale of a young man named Arthur Kipps and his horrifying experience at Eel Marsh House.  

The performance was executed perfectly and made the audience feel involved and hooked the entire time. Even after the performance it still feels as though The Woman in Black is lurking around the corner. This is most likely because the actor that played The Woman in Black is never named which makes it seem like she wasn’t supposed to be there and that the audience is being haunted with her presence.  

I really enjoyed the play; it made me laugh, scream and cry throughout the two hours we were there. It had its light-hearted, funny moments like at the very beginning when the Older Kipps is trying to read out his manuscript and keeps saying “It was Nine-Thirty on Christmas Eve.” in a very drab tone. It had its horrific scary moments during the many jump scares and it had its incredibly sad ending when you learn of what happened to Kipps’s family. Altogether it was a wonderful experience that I really recommend.