Mindgame (Modern Playwrights) (Oberon Modern Plays)

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Simon Ward as 'Dr Farquhar does his best to make the doctor seem a little odd, and Christopher Blake also performs as well as he could considering the script. Anthony Horowitz is best known for such television programmes as Poirot, Murder Most Horrid, and Midsomer Murders - for wich he has written many episodes.

Once the cat-and-mouse game gets under way in earnest, subtle transformations begin to take place on Beowulf Boritt’s funhouse set. Styler is tricked into thinking he is Easterman, and they think up various methods, but in the end Styler suffocates her with a carrier bag. Godart is also a man of many faces, all of them set in expressions of wary distrust as Mark Styler, a bestselling crime author hoping to get an interview with a cannibal serial killer who has been locked up at Fairfields for the past 30 years. Comedy, suspense, horror, murder, mind games , confusions, psychology, moreno`s psychodrama everything is inside. A truly gripping thriller [that] keeps you guessing and marveling from its deceptively normal opening to its fearful climax.Poor Helen Hobson had to play the completely unbelievable character of 'Nurse Plimpton' in such a way I fear she may never get another acting job. First he has to get past Dr Farquhar, the quixotic head of Fairfields – the asylum where Easterman is kept.

She explains that Farquhar is in fact Easterman, who killed most of the staff during a "psychiatric drama" session. She and Farquhar, who is now Carol, completely change, and Styler is told he is Easterman and Styler was just his assumed name. He is desperate to see Easterman, and suggests that he wore a strait-jacket to keep him from damaging anything. He arrives at 'Fairfields', an experimental hospital for the criminally insane, hoping to get an interview with serial killer Eastman for his next novel.I may not like the play, but the popular press didn't mind it too much, except for NICHOLAS DE JONGH of THE EVENING STANDARD who says, "When it came to suffering, the real, hard work was done by an audience condemned to watch this strident, silly piffle.