Dead Man's Hand

The Phoenix Players bring the captivating thriller to the Arts Centre

 

Arts Centre, Swindon

Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 September 2018

 

 
This captivating play at first seems to be the usual Agatha Christie type play – two couples lured to a remote Italian villa to be murdered one by one. It is only when the play is well advanced that we learn we are watching actors rehearsing their own murder mystery. It is shortly after this when two of these actors have been murdered in the same manner as the characters in their own play, that the twists and turns begin to tease the audience.

 

Who is the murderer and what do those about to be murdered have in common? Yet even this ploy is not what it first seems! An intriguing final twist unravels the real reason for the whole charade.

  
All in all an enticingly clever piece of work which seems to laugh at the genre until the Dead Man shows his hand.

 

Tickets: £13.00