Dial M for Murder

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:

7 October 2009

And so to the Playhouse for Dial M for Murder. Most, including me, will be familiar with the story from the 1953 Hitchcock film without realising that the story had been a play before Hitch got his hands on it. The first question that needs answering is what is this revival doing here? Alarm bells signal that this could be another representative of the kind of mummified English touring theatre that has wound its rotten roots around the schedules of most of the country’s regional theatres. Mired in the past, with a target audience of septuagenarians and no creative ambitions at all, nothing is more depressing to a reviewer or indeed an actor than to have to summon enthusiasm over the latest production of She Stoops to Conquer or The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Happily, Lucy Bailey’s production is tense, witty and has does a good job of walking the line between reverence for the source material and putting it in the right artistic context. What made Dial M for Murder su...

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