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Love, murder and the supernatural in Wilde's black comedy. Lord Arthur Savile's engagement to the lovely Sybil Merton looks like it will last forever - all because Lady Merton's chiromantist, Podgers, has read Lord Arthur's palm and foretold that he would commit murder. Lord Arthur desires a blissful married life and therefore, quite natually feels duty bound to get the murder over the first.

Creatives/Company

Book by: Oscar Wilde
Adapted by(s): Constance Cox, Constance Cox
Company: First Team Theatre Company

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Play) production archive for QTIX code T1862669084. Details of all Lord Arthur Savile's Crime archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S4046

Archive Listings

15 Sep 99
to
18 Sep 99

The Old Laundry Theatre
Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria
Performance Details => Venue archive

Reviews

The Westmorland Gazette: 11Jan01:
First team make a reviewers job easy. Staging Lord Arthur Saville's Crime as part of the Old Laundry annual bash of entertainment gems the cast once more rose to the occasion. As the aristocratic hero Lord Saville, Andrew Barrow's performance was bordering on an Olivier Award, as was Neil Metcalfe's, as Baines the butler. Having said that, the whole ten-strong team grasped the Constance Cox script, based on an Oscar Wilde, short story, by the scruff of the neck and lifted it into the realms of the memorable. Judith Notley swept in as a suitably named Lady Windermere and Kerry Willison-Parry was sharp and acerbic as Lady Julia. Although it was wonderfully witty, it occasionally bordered on farce. However that didn't detract from the superb timing and magnificent delivery of all the cast.

User Reviews

The Westmorland Gazette (11Jan01): First team make a reviewers job easy. Staging Lord Arthur Saville's Crime as part of the Old Laundry annual bash of entertainment gems the cast once more rose to the occasion. As the aristocratic hero Lord Saville, Andrew Barrow's performance was bordering on an Olivier Award, as was Neil Metcalfe's, as Baines the butler. Having said that, the whole ten-strong team grasped the Constance Cox script, based on an Oscar Wilde, short story, by the scruff of the neck and lifted it into the realms of the memorable. Judith Notley swept in as a suitably named Lady Windermere and Kerry Willison-Parry was sharp and acerbic as Lady Julia. Although it was wonderfully witty, it occasionally bordered on farce. However that didn't detract from the superb timing and magnificent delivery of all the cast.

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