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Deathtrap (March 8-24, 2007)

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A Thriller by Ira Levin

“It is a classic thriller, a genre with a style, a manner and an audience of its own.” – N. Y. Post

Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell that has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from Clifford, a student in the seminar he has been conducting – a thriller that has the potential of being a Broadway hit. Sidney and his wife Myra come up with an almost unthinkable scheme. But soon after Clifford arrives, it becomes clear that their plan is not to be as simple as it seems.

Night Must Fall (September 18 – October 4, 2003)

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A Thriller by Emlyn Williams

It is no secret that Danny, a bellhop who arrives at the Bramson bungalow, has already murdered one woman and there is little doubt that he will soon murder another, the aged owner of the house. He carefully insinuates himself into her affections while preventing her niece, who has guessed his history, from giving him away. Although the niece firmly believes she hates him, she becomes fascinated with this dashing young assassin. Danny is a self-centred psychopath with no feelings and a vast imagination. For his own edification he is perpetually acting the part of a murderer and is only unhappy because he cannot share his secret with the world!

An Inspector Calls (March 6-22, 2003)

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A Thriller by J.B. Priestley

“A psychologically adept work and a most engaging play!”

Though ostensibly a remarkably clear and effective drama, an air of mystic unreality underlies An Inspector Calls. When a young girl commits suicide in an English industrial city, an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine enquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family. All are to some degree implicated, but what was a friendly and closely-knit family at the beginning of the evening is reveled as selfish, self-centered and cowardly before the night is over. And who was the “inspector”? Why was no suicide reported to the police? How did he know?

The Aspern Papers (November 22 – December 8, 2001)

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A Thriller by Michael Redgrave, from the story by Henry James

“Bewitching, tantalizing, exciting! A work of uncommon suspense and exceptional literary merit.” – New York Daily News

At the turn of the twentieth century, in a once-grand Venetian palazzo, live, in seculsion, an old woman and her niece. An American publisher asks to lease some rooms, his purpose to unearth the mystery of a brilliant author who once loved the aunt. The old lady curtly rejects all enquiries; when she finds him going through some papers he has discovered, she is seized with a stroke. The lonely niece pathetically proposes, but he rejects her when she says she has burned the papers! Her affections spurned, she locks herself up in the palazzo. But had she really burned the papers?