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Deathtrap is a 1978 American play written by Ira Levin with many plot twists and which refers to itself as a play within a play. It is in two acts with one set and five characters.
In Ira Levin’s classic comedic thriller, Deathtrap, a washed-up playwright finds a chance to rise to the top once more, a shot he’d be willing to kill for. Sidney Bruhl hasn’t written a hit play for 18 years when he receives a script from a former student, Clifford Anderson, that’s a guaranteed success. His wife, Myra, suggests the two ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts. Ira Levin. 4.02. 3,041 ratings236 reviews. Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds.
Nov 4, 2010 · Full catalog record. MARCXML. A hit play on Broadway, this suspense thriller combines fiendish cleverness with deft entertainment in shock afteredge-of-the-seat shock.
Jan 24, 2024 · In Deathtrap, Ira Levin’s long-running and much-acclaimed Broadway comedic thriller, Levin doesn’t just hang a pistol on a wall of the curtainless State Theater stage, he hangs three, along with a rifle or two, an assortment of knives and swords, a battle axe, a crossbow — a whole wall full of weaponry.
Deathtrap. Play. Writers: Ira Levin. Plot. ACT ONE. Sitting in his study in Westport, Connecticut, playwright Sidney Bruhl is finishing reading a new play by one of his former students. The room is decorated with souvenirs of Sidney’s past theatrical successes: framed production photos, real and fake weapons used in his thrillers.
Aug 15, 2014 · In “Deathtrap,” a comedy-thriller by Ira Levin, on in Northport, the walls glisten with weapons, and more of them will be used than at first seems plausible.
