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...says "er . . ." That unmistakable Francis "er . . ." has got author and readers past many a potentially mushy spot and on to the good part, where the hero is gonked by hired gorillas or injected with horse tranquilizer, and then wakes up, aware that something is wrong, inside a locked steamer trunk...
...play itself has all the makings of a consummate thriller. Two ivy-leaguers--William Brandon (Tom Tremoulet) and Charles Granillo (Adam Selipsky)--have murdered a fellow undergrad, who just happens to be their professor's son, and stuffed the body in a trunk. Brandon and Granillo have no real motives for the crime. They do it for the sheer thrill of murder, coupled with their own arrogance and plenty of neo-Nietszchean philosphizing...
Convinced of their superior intellect, the murderers plot a dastardly proof of their innocence: they invite their victim's father to a dinner party and serve the food on the very trunk in which they've hidden the body. Unluckily for them, though, they've left a little piece of the rope they used to strangle their victim dangling from the lid of the trunk...
...voices a thought: "Man, wouldn't it be a freak if someone turned Reagan on? I mean, shit, if he just had one light, he'd see it..."--and there is a moment of uncertain embarassed terror before we realize that the moonface, putting his valise in the back trunk has not heard and, thumping back to the front door, is in and smiling, grinning, trying to be friendly and we are smiling too, smiling perhaps too widely, a sickly waiting grin is on our faces until finally he can take it no more and says, "Say, fellas...
...Neumann, 24, helped Roberts slip across the border into East Germany in the trunk of a rented car in April...