Friday, October 10, 2025
Time: 5:29 PM
Song: Lost River
Artist: Murder By Death
Mode of Consumption: Listing to MP3s on shuffle on way to Geneseo.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/0JXsWn9exVbjzBGHGcdUem?si=afb680bf0035479c
We attended a performance of “The Woman in Black” at the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre in Geneseo tonight. The venue is an old barn, the stage set in the middle of the old mow. The Richmond Hill Players are local amateur actors.
Tonight’s performance had three parts, one was the woman in black, who was a spirit with no lines. The other two parts were that of Mr. Kipps, a lawyer who experienced the haunting, and an actor who has been hired to put on a production of his story.
Mr. Kipps takes on the parts of the various people that he encountered on his journey to rural England in the early 1900s. The actor plays the part of the young lawyer.
It was an impressive performance.
First, the actor had a tremendous amount of dialogue, switching from being himself as an actor and then playing the part of the lawyer I’ve never quite understood how anyone is able to remember so many lines, much less deliver them in a natural, believable way.
Second, the lawyer switching parts including dialects was impressive. It would have been easy to slip into the wrong voice at any moment.
It was a spooky tale, appropriate for the season, with a fog machine and the occasional shrieks from the Woman in Black.
I was able to guess the twist at the end by intermission, not because it was easy to catch, just that I caught the foreshadowing.
It made me think that we need to do some study of script writing in Write On. I’ll have to look up some techniques for this and maybe an example.
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