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Mystery and intrigue with a woman in white

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From: Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
Date: 20071012
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Sidmouth Amateur Dramatic Society is staging its autumn production at the Manor Pavilion Theatre next week.

Wilkie Collins' classic tale The Woman in White has been adapted for the stage by Constance Cox and maintains all the disturbing intrigue of the original text.

It's a moonlit night on Hampstead when Walter Hartright has a chance meeting with a mysterious woman dressed in white. Confused and agitated, she warns him against a certain aristocrat.

Shortly afterwards, Hartright takes up his new post as art tutor to Laura Fairlie and Marion Halcombe at Limmeridge Hall in Cumberland. Laura ...

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