Mr. Kipps, the protagonist, has engaged a professional actor to help him learn to act out and reveal his play onstage to his family and friends. By the second act, a shy, timid, and nervous Kipps transforms into the superior actor. At this point, the boundary between Kipps' recollection of the incident merges into the reality of the play the audience is viewing.

The audience learns that Kipps, as a young lawyer, was assigned to look after the affairs of a deceased Mrs. Drablow. He travels to gloomy and mysteriously silent Crythin-Gifford. He attends Mrs. Drablow's funeral and sees a thin, pale, and sickly woman walking around the graveyard. His curiosity of this vision and the towns peoples extreme secrecy of Mrs. Drablow's history leads him to her house: Eel Marsh House.

There are loud and painful noises heard coming from a locked room in what should be an otherwise empty house. He becomes extremely frightened and nervous, but eventually is able to enter into the secret room. The room appears as if someone has recently spent time there- a child. He soon finds out from a local that the boy whose room he had entered was the son of Mrs. Drablow's sister. The b

2) Describe the central theme/idea of the play.

I think the role Shawn Guarino plays is immensely difficult because of this. And I do not believe that I am an experienced enough actor to accomplish such a task. Thus, I am left with the final character, the woman in black.

As there is only three actors to choose from, Shawn Guarino (Kipps) is the best actor. As a character in the play and as an actor in reality he has accomplished playing six different character roles flawlessly. Even more so, he is the actor who is endowed with bringing the audience from their reality into Kipps, the writers, reality and from there; into Kipp, the actor's reality and back again. I don't know if there is a greater achievement for an actor than the task of connecting realities and making the audience question the one they exist in.

4) Who was the most interesting character in the play? Why?

Shelly also writes her book in a manner that is a story within a story and a reader is left wondering when the events happened, who is telling the story, and who is imagining it. In The Woman In Black, Hill has done all the work for us. She has written a story and has imagined how it looks for us, so that the reader is left with much less imaginative work of his own to do. Then again, she could have handed us more work in critiquing, revising, and perfecting. For she has handed down her idea to the actor, who must imagine how she imagined his role to be. Ouch! This is hard work!

I have also done plays in the past in which I had played the lead part, but getting into character and remaining in character is something that I believe is extremely difficult. An actor strains each moment in a play so that his personality does not reveal itself. It's like schizophrenia. The actor knows he has another personality and must fight to keep it hidden from others.

Interestingly enough, I have recommended this play to friends and they went to see it and enjoyed it. The reason that I recommended this play is because it was different from any other play that I have ever seen. I did not learn anything new that I had not already studied, experienced, or thought about, but there were elements that I liked. The main element that I enjoyed was that the story was the play. This reminds me of how each one of us imagines a book when we read it. I feel that as Kipp was reading his lines he was imagining the way the play should look, or the way the events have previously occurred to him. This was an interesting idea that Susan Hill incorporates and it reminded me of Shelly's Frankenstein.

9) Do you think you gained any knowledge from this play?

I think the most interesting technica

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