THE WOMAN IN BLACK Returns to Capital Stage, 10/31 & 11/1

Just in time for Halloween, Capital Stage will present a staged-reading of a classic tale of ghosts and things that go bump in the night. Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the book by Susan Hill, The Woman in Black is a story of haunting and the haunted. The reading will featuring Capital Stage co-founders Jonathan Rhys Williams and Peter Mohrmann reprising their roles from the 2002 pre-Capital Stage Company, Delta King Theatre production.

Staged-readings for The Woman in Black will be presented at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, October 31 and Thursday, November 1, 2012. Tickets for this fundraising event are $20 per person general admission. Capital Stage subscribers receive $18 tickets. Tickets may be purchased online at www.capstage.org or by calling the box office at 916-995-5464.

This story of a London solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who has rented a theatre and hired an actor to help re-enact and thereby exorcise himself of a ghostly event that occurred 30 years earlier, is three plays within a play. The Actor first coaches Kipps on how to act and then takes for himself the role of Kipps in the harrowing and tragic story of Kipps' life. Kipps, the non-actor actor, plays six different roles relevant to the tragic tale. The tale is that of Jennet Humfrye, the woman in black, who continues to avenge her loss with a persistent malevolence, which has spanned three-quarters of century.

Capital Stage's Founding Artistic Director Stephanie Gularte (ENRON, True West) directs company members Jonathan Rhys Williams (ENRON, True West) and Peter Mohrmann (American Buffalo, The Typographer's Dream). Both actors previously portrayed the same roles in the 2002 production aboard the Delta King.