Deathtrap
From: Saturday, 21st August 2010
To: Saturday, 15 January 2011
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Synopsis
Black comedy, mayhem and murder. Clifford Anderson has written a new thriller titled 'Deathtrap' and sends it to Sidney Bruhl for comment. Sidney hasn't had a successful play for years and plans how he might plagiarise this new script. When Clifford turns up at the isolated New England home of the Bruhl's events start to take a sinister turn.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 8 September 2010
Ira Levin’s 1978 Deathtrap followed Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth in being a superior thriller masquerading as a charade. In the film, Michael Caine snogged Christopher Reeve, and director Matthew Warchus incorporates that one change into this accurate, tense but ultimately unsatisfactory revival. So, Simon Russell Beale now snogs Jonathan Groff and turns the piece into a not very convincing gay fantasy.
As an act of period restoration, this isn’t a patch on Warchus’ makeover of Boeing-Boeing with Mark Rylance. Russell Beale’s Sidney Bruhl, a once successful playwright with a severe case of writer’s block, is driven to ecstasies of jealousy by a script sent to him by Groff’s too-cute-to-be-true Clifford Anderson, whom he tutored on a writers’ course.
The artfully plotted script – Levin’s and their own – twists and turns through acts of murder, flas...
Latest User Review
Steve - 22 October 2010:
Simon R-B is brilliant. The show passed by in what seemed like only a matter of seconds for me: it was entirely captivating and kept us on the edge of our seats - I even bunked-off work to see it:-) SRB is incapable of turning out a poor performance, as he is pure quality ... he even found time to generously sign my ticket during the intermission, when I interupted and pestered him during his 'stage door' down time - what a gent! (thank you Simon!). Go and see it - it is fab! P.S. The 'gay' kiss is no big deal at all - who cares? I'm straight and I thought it was well done, if not a bit unexpected, plotline-wise:-)...
Cast
Simon Russell Beale (Sidney Bruhl)
Estelle Parsons (Helga Ten Dorpe)
Jonathan Groff (Clifford Anderson)
Claire Skinner (Myra Bruhl)
Terry Beaver
Creative
Ira Levin (Author)
David Pugh (Producer)
Dafydd Rogers (Producer)
Matthew Warchus (Director)
Rob Howell (Design)
Hugh Vanstone (Lighting)
Simon Baker (Sound)
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