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Deathtrap
- tour
Playwright - Ira Levin
Director - Peter Wilson
Set & Lighting Designer - Peter Wilson
Company - PW Prdoductions, PWT Ltd & Paul Farrah in Associocation
with Kindling Productions
Venue - Kings Theatre Leven St
0131 529 6000 New Secure 72 hr email booking + info available at
www.eft.co.uk
Dates 2 - 6 April at 7:30pm Matinees Wed and Sat at 2:30pm then continues
on tour dates
Reviewer - Thelma Good
Twists galore, and witty lines
Written by Ira Levin who wrote Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives,
Deathtrap has twists galore, and witty lines to keep the action tight
and surprising. It also has the standard components, 5 characters - husband
and wife, student, lawyer and psychic, one setting - the writer's study
in Newport, Connecticut, a variety of weapons - axe, samurai swords (3)
and more, not to mention the essential - a host of motives.
David Soul turns in a crisp, very pleasing performance as the husband,
Sidney Bruhl, a formerly successful murder mystery playwright. Bruhl's
originality may have dried up but his tongue and wit are still barbed
as he flings out observations on writing , critics and the theatre. His
wife Myra, Susan Penhaligon, is getting a little keen he should support
her for a change. Not earning enough Sidney is teaching thriller play
writers when one student, Clifford Anderson, sends a script to die for.
Sidney invites him over to discuss it and in walks a tall, rangy, young
man in cowboy boots with a certain way of swaying his butt. Myra looks
him over and so does Sidney and later so does his lawyer Porter Milgrim,
Stewart Bevan. Clifford is played by Gerald Kyd who handles well this
character's sly charm. Periodically, in drops the psychic staying near
by, Helga ten Drop, a wonderfully weird woman, superbly zanily played
by Becky Hindley. With lots of action, shifts in fortunes, and three,
intriguing, well played characters this production ensures you are kept
guessing, laughing and surprised to the very end.
© Thelma Good 2 April 2002
Tour 23 Jan - 8 June 2002
8 - 13 April at 7:30pm Mats Wed 2pm Sat 2:30pm Nottingham
Theatre Royal 0115 989 5555
16 - 20 April at 7:30pm Mats Wed, Thurs & Sat 2:30pm Manchester
The Lowery 0161 876 2000
22 - 27 April at 7:45pm Mats Wed & Sat 2:30pm Richmond
Theatre Surrey 020 8940 0088
29 April - 4 May at 7:45pm Mats Thurs & Sat 2:30pm Brighton
Theatre Royal 01273 328488
6 - 11 May Mon - Wed at 7:30pm Thur - Sat 8pm Mat Wed & Sat
2:30pm Bath Theatre Royal 01225 448844
27 - 1 June at 7:30pm Mats Wed & Sat 2:30pm Milton Keynes
Theatre 01908 60 60 90
4 - 8 June at 8pm Mats Wed & Sat 2:30pm Stoke on Trent Regent
Theatre 01782 213800
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