fourthwall’s 2008 season production:

Stranglers

a play by Craig Warner

based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith

At the suggestion of Truman Capote, Patricia Highsmith wrote her first novel, Strangers on a Train, which was published in 1950. The following year it was made into what would become one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best feature films, starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker as the two strangers who meet in the dining car of a train: Guy Hains, an ambitious architect, and Charles Bruno, a charming but spoilt mother’s boy with a liking for drink. Because they are strangers they “can say anything they like” to one another. So much so that Bruno proposes the 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 is a brilliant example of what theatre exit surveys have shown to be the most popular dramatic genre – the psychological thriller. Craig Warner’s recent adaptation, seen to critical acclaim in 2000, is a gripping play and faithful to Highsmith’s book.

Performance dates

at Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross, Nr. Liskeard, Cornwall - (01579 362382)
June
    Thursday 26
    Friday 27
July
    Monday 14
    Saturday 19
    Tuesday 29
    Wednesday 30
August
    Saturday 9
    Tuesday 12
    Wednesday 20
September
    Thursday 4
    Friday 5

This production was supported by:

and by:

at:  www.paignton-steamrailway.co.uk

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