Cast:

An O.R.P. Production directed by Samantha Gessey.

Crew:

The play is set in 1950's America. Simple Settings denote a variety of locations and aim to create a feeling of film noir.

The Play:

America in the 1950's. Two young strangers meet in the dining-car of a train: Guy Haines, an ambitious architect, and Charles Bruno, a charming but spoilt mother's boy with a liking for drink. Because they're strangers they "can say anything they like" to one another. So much so that Bruno proposes teh perfect murder: he will kill Guy's feckless, unfaithful wife, and in return, Guy will kill Bruno's much-hated father. Amused, Guy parts from Bruno never imagining he will see him again or that Bruno was serious. But Bruno was deadly serious and when he kills Guy's wife, he expects Guy to fulfil his part of the proposition.

This brilliant psychological thriller by Craig Warner, based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, was seen to critical acclaim in 2000.

Designer's Note

In designing the set for this play, the intention was to create several spaces, each of which could be used for serveral scenes:

• UR, on an elevated platform, a bedroom, which serves as the room at the Hotel La Fonda and also Bruno's bedroom at home
• DR, a table and chairs, which serve as the dining-car on the train, the New York bar and Guy's office
• C, a small room with a couch or cot which serves as Guy's apartment, with a curtain upstage leading to kitchen
• DL, a sitting room, which serves as both the villa in Mexico and later as the Hines living room
• UL, a staircase leading up to Bruno's father's room
• somewhere, a public phone

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