DEATHTRAP

16-18 May 2002

Trevor Pyne directed this thriller, which took place on the 16, 17 and 18 May 2002.

"Deathtrap" is a play for three men and two women, set in the isolated New England home of thriller playwright, Sidney Bruhl. The action centres around the play, "Deathtrap", a new thriller by unknown dramatist Clifford Anderson which he has sent to Sidney for comment - or has he? Without a success to his credit for some years, Sidney plots, with his reluctant wife, Myra, about how best to plagiarise "Deathtrap" and when Clifford turns up to discuss the play with the "Master", events take a sinister turn. Sidney and Clifford act out a particularly gruesome pair of murders before Myra, who does not realise they are faked and suffers a fatal heart attack in consequence. "Deathtrap" is revealed as an ingenious means of murdering Myra, and Sidney and Clifford settle down to apparent domestic bliss. But Sidney's plans take an unexpected twist when Dutch clairvoyant Helga ten Dorp begins to experience disquieting vibrations and Clifford decides that "Deathtrap" has a plot which is far too good to waste.

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