The woman in black (2)

Who is she?

 The answer will be given to you if you attend the play  at school on November 20th. Nevertheless for those who won't have the opportunity to see it , here are a few clues .

The play is a ghost story,which was adapted for the theatre from Susan Hill's work; The Woman in Black

Here is a summary of the plot:

Arthur Kipps, a middle aged solicitor, hires a theatre and the services of a professional actor to help him re-enact - and thereby hopefully exorcise - a ghostly event which befell him many years previously with horrifying tragic results.  
Kipps begins to read his story: painfully, self-consciously and hesitantly at first but coached by the actor and aided by theatrical artifice, he grows in confidence and ability as he assumes a variety of roles and the play moves from the narration to enactment. 
The actor portrays the young Kipps, sent North by his London firm to settle the estate of an elderly recluse, Mrs.Alice Dradlow, in whose isolated marshland house Kipps has to finalise all the remaining details of her estate.

Proud and isolated, 'Eel Marsh House' surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond the Nine Live Causeway. When Arthur arrives he has no idea of the tragic secrets hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he sees a wasted young woman, all dressed in black, at the funeral that a sense of unease begins to take hold, an unease which is deepened by the refusal of the locals to talk about the woman in black - and her terrible purpose. This spectre, seeking vengeance for the death of her young child, attaches herself to Kipps and unleashes a macabre sequence of events which culminates in a truly chilling twist in the play's final moments.

DIFFICULT WORDS

a solicitor: in England, a member of the legal profession who is not a barrister: solicitors are not members of the bar and may not plead cases in superior courts
enact: to make proposed legislation into law 
marshland: marécage
estate: property
wasted : very thin
unease: to feel anxious
unleashes: déclenche
twist: make ends turn in opposite directions