Word: bruhl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ARRESTED. PETER GRAF, 57, father of tennis titan and recent Wimbledon champion Steffi Graf; on charges of underpaying his taxes by $7.2 million over four years; in Bruhl, Germany. Peter, longtime manager of his daughter's court winnings, stands accused of harboring a racket of his own. Steffi remains under investigation...
Though the production starts off at a confused, hurried pace, the audience soon becomes intrigued by the world of Sydney Bruhl (Brad Rouse), a soon-to-be has-been playwright who, we are led to believe, would kill for the chance to resuscitate his fading career. When former student Clifford Anderson (Ross Benjamin) sends him a copy of his just finished, extremely promising play entitled Deathtrap, Bruhl invites the awe-inspired youth to bring all the existing drafts to his home for some one-on-one mentoring. Hardly altruistic, Bruhl is creating a deathtrap of his own. As soon...
With his hysterically funny phony affectations and glib delivery, Rouse's Bruhl is a wonderful mix of smug cynicism and crafty nonchalance. Adding a tinge of frustration and self-pity to his portrayal, Rouse gives the audience something to which they can relate, allowing us to feel for and sometimes even root for a man capable of murder and deceit. Dressed like an Olympic coach from the former Soviet Union, Alexis Susman as the Dutch psychic Helga Ten Dorp, delivers the play's most amusing lines with appropriate timing and sense of mock seriousness. Benjamin's slick, swaggering and sleazy...
Instead of just portraying Myra as a wife who is legitimately afraid of her husband's potential for evil, Catherine Robe plays Mrs. Bruhl with the wacky enthusiasm of Jerry Lewis. Robe incessantly grabs at her pearls, fiddles with her knitting needles and organizes and reorganizes liquor decanters as if these were the international signs for being nervous. Her lack of subtlety impairs her delivery as she swallows most of her lines, confusing the scenes that she is in. When Mrs. Bruhl does meet her "plot twist", the audience is more relieved than shocked...
Enter Sydney Bruhl's Westport, Connecticut living room and make sure your safety bar is pulled all the way down; Deathtrap is a wild ride that will leave you thrilled and exhausted...