[NEohioPAL]Another Great Review of Woman in Black - Final 4 Performances at Actors' Summit

Wed Nov 6 08:39:25 PST 2002

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Ghouls, ghosts and other things
that go bump in the night 
All walk the stage in 'The Woman in Black' at Actors' Summit 
By David Ritchey 

HUDSON -- Halloween invites us to be pleasantly scared or to pretend to be 
scared. What adult hasn't faked terror at the sight of a 6-year-old child on 
the doorstep saying "Trick-or-Treat" in an effort to get a Halloween goody? 

That's what happens this Halloween season with "The Woman in Black" at 
Actors' Summit. This production invites the audience to fake terror. (I was 
just pretending. I wasn't really afraid.) 

The program identifies "The Woman in Black" as a ghost play, with the script 
adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the book by Susan Hill. The cast for "The 
Woman in Black" is two men: Wayne Turney (Arthur Kipps) and Peter Voinovich 
(the actor). Where is the woman in black you ask? She's dead. But, who is 
that roaming across the stage and through the theater? Can she be a ghost? 

The complicated plot deals with Kipps, who hires an actor to perform a script 
he has written. However, the script contains a good deal that is 
autobiographical in a story dealing with accidents, the death of a child and 
a woman who can't find peace. 
The story takes place in a theater -- a theater not too different from that 
of Actors' Summit in Hudson, but this one is in England. Don't forget to add 
cold weather, rain and a mist or fog. The script-within-a-script calls for 
the actor-within-the-new-script to play a lawyer who goes to an old mansion 
that is on a little island. Only one small path leads from the water to the 
mansion and that path is surrounded by quicksand. 

The elderly lady of the house has died, and the young lawyer must go to the 
mansion to sort through her papers. At the mansion, locked doors open, sounds 
come from empty rooms, a dog barks and a woman in black strolls through the 
acting area. 

Scared? 

Someone died and the butler didn't do it. In fact, several people died. What 
else do they have to do in an old mansion that is cut off from the world by a 
thick mist? 
"The Woman in Black" continues through Nov. 10. For ticket information, call 
(330) 342-0800. 

Go with someone who won't be surprised if you're pleasantly scared and who 
won't be embarrassed if you scream. 

David Ritchey has a Ph.D. in communications and is an associate professor of 
communications at The University of Akron. He is a member of the American 
Theatre Critics Association. 

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<HTML>Ghouls, ghosts and other things
 that go bump in the night 
 All walk the stage in 'The Woman in Black' at Actors' Summit 
 By David Ritchey 
 
 HUDSON -- Halloween invites us to be pleasantly scared or to pretend to be scared. What adult hasn't faked terror at the sight of a 6-year-old child on the doorstep saying "Trick-or-Treat" in an effort to get a Halloween goody? 
 
 That's what happens this Halloween season with "The Woman in Black" at Actors' Summit. This production invites the audience to fake terror. (I was just pretending. I wasn't really afraid.) 
 
 The program identifies "The Woman in Black" as a ghost play, with the script adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the book by Susan Hill. The cast for "The Woman in Black" is two men: Wayne Turney (Arthur Kipps) and Peter Voinovich (the actor). Where is the woman in black you ask? She's dead. But, who is that roaming across the stage and through the theater? Can she be a ghost? 
 
 The complicated plot deals with Kipps, who hires an actor to perform a script he has written. However, the script contains a good deal that is autobiographical in a story dealing with accidents, the death of a child and a woman who can't find peace. 
 The story takes place in a theater -- a theater not too different from that of Actors' Summit in Hudson, but this one is in England. Don't forget to add cold weather, rain and a mist or fog. The script-within-a-script calls for the actor-within-the-new-script to play a lawyer who goes to an old mansion that is on a little island. Only one small path leads from the water to the mansion and that path is surrounded by quicksand. 
 
 The elderly lady of the house has died, and the young lawyer must go to the mansion to sort through her papers. At the mansion, locked doors open, sounds come from empty rooms, a dog barks and a woman in black strolls through the acting area. 
 
 Scared? 
 
 Someone died and the butler didn't do it. In fact, several people died. What else do they have to do in an old mansion that is cut off from the world by a thick mist? 
 "The Woman in Black" continues through Nov. 10. For ticket information, call (330) 342-0800. 
 
 Go with someone who won't be surprised if you're pleasantly scared and who won't be embarrassed if you scream. 
 
 David Ritchey has a Ph.D. in communications and is an associate professor of communications at The University of Akron. He is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association. </HTML>

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