 We're just five days away from Halloween and the next production produced by Brainer Community Theater is aiming to get you into the spooky season. Clayton Castle has the story. Dark, spooky and thrilling are all words that are being used to describe Brainer Community Theater's current production of Woman in Black. The two-man play features Patrick Spradland and Kevin Yeager in the starring roles. I play a gentleman who has undergone a terrible ordeal earlier in his life and he has hired an actor to help him retell that story to his family so they understand the trauma that he has suffered and along the way in working with the actor this gentleman fills in all of the other people that are important to the story so I play maybe seven different characters. Kevin Yeager plays the actor and says that despite it being a two man show with a nearly bare stage the story will capture and retain the audience's attention. The line between the play within a play and the story and the play itself all becomes very blurry and very muddy and I think the audience will find that they get swept away in the story and forget that it really is a play within a play. Spradland saw the production in London and says it is a perfect show for the current season. It's a nice piece of writing and it's a good ghost story for Halloween which is timely to the season we're in. What's also unique about this particular production is that Spradland theater director at Central Lakes College is also the director of Woman in Black. It has its challenges because I want as a director I want my actors to immerse themselves into their roles and just concentrate on that and not worry about what's going on around them and get distracted but if I'm acting and directing I find myself disconnecting from that sometimes. The chemistry between Spradland and Yeager is evident and as Yeager put it this show suits his talents like none other. Because I'm kind of naturally drawn to heavier content as an actor so this is I would say I don't know philosophically speaking a little closer to my wheelhouse of what I enjoyed doing. The Woman in Black opened earlier tonight and runs the rest of the weekend reporting in Brainerd Clayton Castle Lakeland News. The production runs Friday and Saturday night as well as a Saturday matinee the Woman in Black is being performed at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.