DEATHTRAP
A powerful thriller - one of the biggest hits in the history of Broadway

October 19-22 at 8pm, 23rd at 5pm, 25-29 at 8pm
Old Magistrates' Court (corner Sturt & Stokes St)

DEATHTRAP is a roller-coaster ride that alternately amuses and terrifies.

 

In Ira Levin's DEATHTRAP, washed-up playwright Sidney Bruhl receives a copy of a brilliant new work (a play so good "a gifted director couldn't even hurt it," says Sidney) written by Clifford, a student seeking his advice. Sidney invites Clifford to his secluded home, where he learns the young man hasn't shown the play to anyone else.

Levin has taken the basic components of thrillers and horror stories; murder, deceit, innocent dialogue with hidden sinister meanings, plot reversals, unexpected turns of events, etc., and twisted and rearranged the pieces again and again.