SLEUTH
VINTAGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS & LOWRY'S SPOTLIGHT THEATER:
FEB. 2 – MAR.
11
L-R:Brandon Palmer & Mark Rubald(Photo Credit: RDG Photography)
In 1971 SLEUTH received the Tony Award for Best Play.
The following year playwright Anthony Shaffer adapted his play for a film,
which starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. According to Shaffer, the
play had been partially inspired by his friend, Stephen Sondheim, who loved
playing games.
Shaffer sets this thriller in Andrew Wyke’s
Wiltshire manor house. Wyke, who is a huge success as mystery writer, has
created a home which reflects his obsessions with the deceptive inventions of
fiction and game-playing.
The author
invites his wife’s lover, Milo Tindle, to come over to his home, and coerces him to stage a robbery. The chain of
events which then spiral out of control leave us as audience to decide where
imagination ends and reality begins. In this critic’s not so humble opinion this
cat and mouse game is written with such delightful skill and wit it’s impossible not to
get swept away by it.
The acting
stuns!
Mark Rubald’s
whirlwind reading of the part of Andrew Wyke is breathtaking in its shifts of
accent and persona. Brandon Palmer’s Tindle, who struggles to keep up with the
quicksilver nature of Wyke’s imagination, is the perfect foil.
All of Bernie
Cardell’s magical directorial instincts are at work here allowing playwright
Shaffer’s world of mystery and mayhem to do its work magnificently.
Alex Polzin’s
beautifully appointed set design is an astonishing work of art. The wrap-around
nature of Polzin's design is full of character-defining detail that allows Wyke’s
home to become a character all unto itself.
The costumes by Susan Rahmsdorff-Terry and
lighting by Vance Mackenzie enhance the production.
Vintage Theatre & Spotlight Theatre present
“Sleuth”
Mystery
writer husband and wife’s lover play the ultimate game of
cat-and-mouse.
Feb.
2 – Mar. 11*
Fri/Sat
and Mon., Feb 19, Thurs., Mar. 8 at 7:30 p.m.; Sun. at 2:30 p.m.
$16
- $32
Vintage
Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora 80010.
* Please note date changes.
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