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Creative Team
Anthony Shaffer - Playwright Cherissa Richards - Director Emma Welham - Assistant Director Andy Moro - Set Designer Hanne Loosen - Costume Designer Lyall Jovie - Lighting Designer Chad Blain - Sound Design/Original Composition John Knight - Fight Director Laurann Brown - Dialect Consultant Sara Turner - Stage Manager Michael Luong - Apprentice Stage Manager Cast Braden Griffiths - Milo Tindle Christopher Hunt - Andrew Wyke Helen Knight - Inspector Dopppler Tyrell Crews - Understudy Luigi Riscaldino - Understudy |
Photo by Tim Ngyuen
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SLEUTH is a play where the fabric of "one-up-man-ship" is woven into every page. A celebrated mystery writer, obsessed with games and detective thrillers, baits an unsuspecting young rival suitor to join him in his world where play and the mystery around "whodunnit" are the very air he breaths.
It's an exploration of class and generational gaps, the hunter and the hunted, the spider and his prey caught in a web. These characters puzzle through the exhilarating, rich landscape of Andrew Wyke's house of subterfuge. Points are volleyed back and forth and sex, love, status, revenge, honour and deception act as pieces on the chess board. Are they fighting for love? Or simply caught up in the seduction and obsession of their own egos? The play follows these expert game players as they spar in the ultimate contest of "Game, Set and Match!"
It's an exploration of class and generational gaps, the hunter and the hunted, the spider and his prey caught in a web. These characters puzzle through the exhilarating, rich landscape of Andrew Wyke's house of subterfuge. Points are volleyed back and forth and sex, love, status, revenge, honour and deception act as pieces on the chess board. Are they fighting for love? Or simply caught up in the seduction and obsession of their own egos? The play follows these expert game players as they spar in the ultimate contest of "Game, Set and Match!"
Production Photos by Tim Nguyen
Review
Calgary Herald: Richards’ staging ensures that Sleuth is not some musty museum piece but a twisty and twisted, thoroughly engaging thriller.
