THE WOMAN IN BLACK

You may be forgiven for feeling that life has horrors of its own just now. But as the sun comes out, and at least some of our worries subside, perhaps now is a good time for some chilling spookiness. They don’t come more icicle-down-the-spine than Susan Hill’s classic ghost story. Arriving soon at the Arts, the touring show makes its nerve-jangling appearance before a West End run in the autumn. We are promised an ingenious stage adaptation (by Stephen Mallatratt) and there is certainly a fine cast to keep us on the edge of our socially distanced seats. Antony Eden and Robert Goodale lead the pack of scarifiers and I for one will be taking at least one comfort blanket. Without any spoilers, the plot swirls like a thick mist around the story of a supposed curse and the strange appearance of a haunted figure. Hill is in the same writing world as the master Edgar Allen Poe in that it is our imaginations which can envelope us in horror.

The goosebumps begin on 17 June and run down the skin up to the 26th.

For tickets and more information, go to

https://www.cambridgeartstheatre.com/whats-on/woman-black