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Wait Until Dark
by Frederick Knott
Directed by David Siskin
Performance dates: October 29-November 21, 2010
A sinister con man, Roat,
and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their
match.
They have traced the
location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to
the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife,
Susy.
Sam had apparently been
persuaded by a strange woman to transport the doll across the
Canadian border, not knowing that sewn inside were several grams of
heroin. When the woman is murdered, the situation becomes more
urgent. The con man and his ex-convicts, through a cleverly
constructed deception, convince Susy that the police have implicated
Sam in the woman's murder, and the doll, which she believes is the
key to his innocence, is evidence.
She refuses to reveal its
location, and with the help of a young neighbor, figures out that
she is the victim of a bizarre charade.
But when Roat kills his
associates, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues between the two.
Susy knows the only way to play fair is by her rules, so when
darkness falls she turns off all the lights, leaving both of them to
maneuver in the dark until the game ends.
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