Turner & Adler Productions is excited to begin their 2017 season with ‘Deathtrap’ by Ira Levin at Centre 64 in beautiful Kimberley.

From the company that brought you ‘Cabaret’ last fall, this comedy-thriller in two acts is one of the most successful whodunits of all time — it spawned a four-year Broadway run of 1,800 performances, a London gig, a big Hollywood movie starring Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve, and countless subsequent incarnations in community theatres.

The story begins in Sidney Bruhl’s study one fateful afternoon in October, when the young playwright Clifford Anderson (Jerrod Bondy) arrives to work on a draft of his new play with his mentor, Sidney (Michael Grossman). Sidney is a sage old scribe who does not intend to go quietly into the good night, which greatly worries his wife, Myra (Michelle LeMay).

Deathtrap is endlessly self-aware and features two men battling for generational dominance as they write a five-character thriller — which is also a description of Deathtrap itself, the other characters being Sidney’s lawyer (played by Brodie Peterson), and the psychic Helga ten Dorp (Brigitte Franyo).

This highly entertaining play has taken the basic components of thrillers and horror stories: murder, deceit, innocent dialogue with hidden sinister meanings, plot reversals, unexpected turns of events, and twisted and rearranged the pieces again and again. Deathtrap will have you on the edge of your seat!

Deathtrap runs June 20-24 at Centre 64 in Kimberley. Tickets are $20 and available at the Snowdrift Cafe, Kimberley (427-2001) and Lotus Books, Cranbrook (426-3415).

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