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Deathtrap, Noël Coward Theatre
Deathtrap, Noël Coward Theatre
Simon Russell Beale is wonderfully sardonic in Ira Levin's comedy thriller
Tuesday, 07 September 2010
'Deathtrap': Simon Russell Beale and Jonathan Groff as duelling playwrightsHugo Glendinning
It’s a rather difficult task to describe anything that occurs in Ira Levin’s marvellous old warhorse of a comedy thriller as it contains so many twists, turns, bluffs, double bluffs, triple - even quadruple - bluffs that any description of the plot holds for only a few minutes of stage time. Added to which, nobody and nothing is exactly what they first appear to be.
It’s a rather difficult task to describe anything that occurs in Ira Levin’s marvellous old warhorse of a comedy thriller as it contains so many twists, turns, bluffs, double bluffs, triple - even quadruple - bluffs that any description of the plot holds for only a few minutes of stage time. Added to which, nobody and nothing is exactly what they first appear to be.
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