The Woman in White
THE ARCHIVE · 2024 UK TOUR
First performed 12 July 2024
A tempestuous tale of love, betrayal and greed, adapted from Wilkie Collins’ Victorian thriller by Robert Tremayne and brought to life through Dionysus Theatre’s atmospheric ensemble style.
The company
Robert Tremayne — Count Fosco
Lauren Whedbee — Marian Halcombe
Vicky Newman — Ensemble
Guest artists
David Upcraft — Walter Hartright
Mollie Simpson — Laura Fairlie and Anne Catherick
Kevin Aylward — Sir Percival Glyde
Jenny Delisle — Lady Fairlie
Creative team
Adapted by Robert Tremayne, after Wilkie Collins
Directed by Vicky Newman
Lighting design — Matthew Pike
Sound design — Alistair Lock
Costume — Meg Hawkins
Not all ghosts haunt you, some just keep you company, until you can trust the living once more…
Walter Hartright’s life is changed forever after a chance encounter with a mysterious woman, dressed all in white, who is desperate to reveal her chilling secret. When he takes up his position as drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie and her half-sister, Marian, he sees in Laura’s face an eerie reflection of the forlorn creature he met previously…
Walter and Laura’s feelings for each other are thwarted by her engagement to the sinister Sir Percival Glyde. The arrival of the charming yet devious Count Fosco begins a chilling chain of events that cannot be stopped until the truth is spoken…
Who can be trusted? Will good prevail? Most importantly, who is the Woman in White?