8 Women

Synopsis

When a family comes together for the holidays, the head of the household is found murdered upstairs with a knife in his back. The telephone has been cut and snow blocks their escape. As eight women try to discover who the killer is, old enmities resurface and bitter recriminations start to fly. Each has a secret, and a motive. One of them is guilty. But which one?

Our Review:

21 March 2011

It isn’t often you go to the theatre on a Friday night to feel yourself in danger of becoming an accessory to murder. But if this is the effect this UK premiere of Robert Thomas’s Eight Women aims to achieve, it certainly succeeds.

Set in the intimacy of a comfortable living room complete with After Eight mints (nice touch!), this is a real comedy thriller. In a room at the back of the auditorium, the man of the house has been found murdered. As we are introduced to our eight suspects, we find every female stereotype represented; the bored wife, the nervy sister-in-law and the ungrateful mother-in-law, joined by the loyal housekeeper, the naughty French-cum-Welsh maid, the flighty sister and the petulant and dutiful daughters.

As high drama ensues amidst every cliché you would expect from a classic whodunnit – poisoned dogs, a severed phone line and horrendous winter weather preventing escape – the various females&...

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Latest User Review

Peter - 7 April 2011:

Quite good fun - I thought the acting was generally weak with a couple of exceptions (not the ones mentioned in the review)and especially not the one singled out!...

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