SALISBURY Playhouse’s spring/summer season opened last night with a new production of Ira Levin’s comedy thriller, Deathtrap, which runs until February 27.
Sidney Bruhl is a Broadway playwright who has failed to have a hit in some time and is now suffering from writer’s block. When a young writer, Clifford, arrives on the doorstep of his remote home with a new script Sidney plans to kill him and pass off the play as his own. But is this play everything it first appears to be?
The cast includes Kim Wall, whose television credits include Armstrong and Miller, as Sidney Bruhl and Sam Phillips, who stars in the BBC’s The Syndicate and the recent feature film Far from the Madding Crowd, as Clifford Anderson. Julien Ball, whose television appearances include Law & Order UK, plays Porter Milgrim and Beverley Klein, who was in the original cast of Les Misérables and whose television credits include Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge, plays Helga ten Dorp.
Deathtrap holds the record for the longest running comedy thriller on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
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