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K.C.A. Players Kinson Community Centre Bournemouth June 2004 Or was it that the plot, although extraordinarily clever, was really rather far-fetched and mind-numbingly explored the minutia of its characters’ lives on what seemed an unnecessarily excessive scale? But whatever the reason, this production totally failed to ignite my imagination despite first-class performances. The story revolves around the perfect murder – and by the time we came to this revelation, having been thrown a number of red herrings en-route, I could cheerfully have committed my own crime and murdered the playwright for being quite so verbose. There are just three characters: a detective, Hallett (Steve Watton), a journalist turned writer, Dee (Anne Robertson) and a mentally disturbed obsessive, Stone (David Wickham), and all have a connection, although this is not revealed for some time into the play. As the story unfolds there are a number of moments of high tension which are well depicted by the cast, thanks to Angela Westwell’s sure direction, and the denouement, when it finally comes, is shocking – but if only it had come half an hour sooner. Linda Kirkman Courtesy of the Bournemouth Daily Echo |
