Toyer

Synopsis

Psychological thriller: When a charming stranger appears at psychologist Maude’s remote house in the LA hills one night, an innocent encounter soon becomes a sexually charged battle of wits. Is he merely a playful admirer or the ‘Toyer’, a disturbed man who performs unspeakable acts of violence on his female victims. A cat and mouse game of verbal, psychological and physical intrigue ensues, where one player must outwit the other.

Our Review:

26 February 2009

There is nothing like a good new thriller and this broken-backed offering - cobbled together to re-open (yet again) the bedevilled little theatre in Great Newport Street that, in a previous era, was the launch pad of Waiting for Godot and so many other great plays and careers - is nothing like a good new thriller.

Toyer is written by American playwright Gardner McKay (“after graduating from Cornell University he became a sculptor” the programme informs us, unhelpfully; he’s also acted in countless television dramas in Hollywood). It’s one of those sexual tease jobs that involve a cornered woman in a night dress and a Peeping Tom psychopath; she’s a psychiatrist, he’s a garage mechanic and quite possibly a gay fruitcake who’s killed (or “disabled” in the play’s horrid vocabulary) a whole bunch of women before, and an Alfred Hitchcock-style “scopophiliac” to boot who likes watchin...

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Mark Wilton - 14 March 2009:

Utterly superb. Al Weaver is masterful and the piece is extremely compelling....

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