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Femme Fatale

Warehouse Theatre, Outer London
From: Friday, 10th December 2004
To: Sunday, 27 February 2005

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Synopsis

Venture with us into the shadows of a dark and stormy night this Christmas and New Year, as the team who created the Dick Barton success story reunite for a wickedly funny pastiche of Hollywood Film Noir. It's the wedding day of the mysterious beauty the press have dubbed the Black Widow, but will her latest millionaire groom survive any more of the honeymoon then her previous five rich and elderly husbands? What is the terrible secret locked in her sad alluring eyes and why is she so obsessed with spiders? A tough talking editor dispatches his handsome rookie reporter to the headquarters of the Widows Corporation to find out. But is he wise to visit the creepy abandoned laboratory in a thunderstorm, as midnight strikes...and to take along a date? This creepy, hilarious, fast moving tribute to such Hollywood B-movie classics as The Fly and Double Indemnity is packed with catchy songs guaranteed to get your feet tapping. All eight feet tapping!

Our Review:

14 December 2004

Take a gorgeous blonde with synthetic wig and a touch of Marilyn innocence, a young reporter-cum-gumshoe, a few corpses, a slinky female dominatrix and a labyrinthine plot involving mutant spiders, amnesia, romance and a hint of Chandler-esque cynicism. Into this mixture stir music, humour, copious Film Noir references and you have Croydon Warehouse�s recipe for a Christmas hit. After five successful Dick Barton shows, based on the legendary radio serial, writer Phil Wilmott has bravely taken on classic cinema. And won.

This is a very knowing show, featuring more nods and winks to the audience than a Christie�s sale-room, but it does not exclude those who don�t know their Double Indemnity from their Big Sleep. It is the kind of story where you can tell the goodies from the baddies by how wide open their eyes are. Rosie Jenkins as Delores, the flaxen-haired heroine, an amnesiac heiress who sprinkles her conversation with the names of celluloid greats, has ...

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