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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Funny, and with multiple twists. Quite brash on the outside but with some of the subtlest foreshadowing I’ve ever seen, invisible until you know the plot. It doesn’t quite break the fourth wall, but it’s definitely looking at it. Some of this is only noticeable on paper and wouldn’t be apparent in a production. Clever stuff.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting
Fun and meta, a little gory, a little shocking, a little queer.
It's a good time.
It's a good time.
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wow. Lots of wit. Lots of moves and countermoves. The setting of a writer and his pupil trying to concoct an audience-pleasing thriller, which itself is an audience-pleasing thriller. Maybe as good as Sleuth. Maybe as good as Dial M. Better than Gaslight. Favorite moment (and teeny spoiler): when the pupil-writer realizes that the mentor-writer intends to steal his promising play, kill him, and pass it off as his own, the younger man invents a story to escape, which the older man counterbalances with his own invented story, which the younger man negates with another spin. Two smart people thinking on their feet with a money-making literary work and life and death hanging in the balance.
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A twisty and murderous play about a play. Nothing is as it seems.
One of the "perfect murders" mentioned in Peter Swanson's [b:Eight Perfect Murders|52225186|Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw, #1)|Peter Swanson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1562582942l/52225186._SX50_SY75_.jpg|71665754].
Act 1, scenes 1 and 2: https://classictheatre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Deathtrap-1.1-and-1.2.pdf
Act 1, scene 3: https://classictheatre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Deathtrap-1.3.pdf
Act 2, scenes 1 to 3: https://classictheatre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Deathtrap-2.1-to-2.3.pdf
One of the "perfect murders" mentioned in Peter Swanson's [b:Eight Perfect Murders|52225186|Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw, #1)|Peter Swanson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1562582942l/52225186._SX50_SY75_.jpg|71665754].
Act 1, scenes 1 and 2: https://classictheatre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Deathtrap-1.1-and-1.2.pdf
Act 1, scene 3: https://classictheatre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Deathtrap-1.3.pdf
Act 2, scenes 1 to 3: https://classictheatre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Deathtrap-2.1-to-2.3.pdf
Interesting play about a young playwright who approaches a more experienced playwright that he met at a conference. A murder plot contrived with his wife, and the young playwright comes to the elder playwright’s home.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
read this cause I’m doing props for a production of it and I’m glad I did! Nice neat little thriller with some good twists and turns