Dial M for Murder
From: Friday, 11th September 2009
To: Saturday, 3 October 2009
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Synopsis
An intense and darkly gripping thriller, famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. Tony is convinced his wife is having an affair. We watch mesmerised at Tony’s precision in planning what must surely be the perfect murder... until it falters in the most unexpected way.
Our Review:
16 September 2009
Lucy Bailey, in a directorial return to the West Yorkshire Playhouse, presents us with something a little dated, a fraction too consciously stylish, but undeniably chilling with her production of Frederick Knott's Dial M For Murder. The play might come across as a fairly conventional thriller if it weren't for the twist: the villain is exposed from the start. Instead of a 'whodunnit' angle, cuckolded husband and washed-out former tennis player Tony Wendice (Richard Lintern) carefully draws out his plot to murder his pretty but somewhat vacant wife Sheila (Aislin McGuckin) with the audience privy to every detail. The play's success therefore lies in the tension of watching the wheels being set in motion, and the unpredictable unfurling of events as the murder is ultimately bungled, with all the cover-up attempts that follow.
The opening of the play makes up aesthetically for what it lacks in substance, as Sheila and her lover Max (Nick Fletcher) lounge around in be...
Cast
Aislin McGuckin (Sheila Wendice)
Nick Fletcher
Richard Lintern
Des McAleer
Daniel Hill (Captain Lesgate)
Creative
Frederick Knott (Author)
West Yorkshire Playhouse (Producer)
Fiery Angel (Producer)
Lucy Bailey (Director)
Mike Britton (Design)
Chris Davey (Lighting)
Mic Pool (Sound)
Philip D'Orleans (fight) (Director)
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