Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot of the 1952 play was distinctly threadbare: seven candidates for the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association trapped by a blizzard in a provincial guesthouse with a maniacal killer. But Murder Manufacturer Agatha Christie said optimistically, "I do think we will get quite a good run out of it," as she signed over all royalties to her grandson Mathew Prichard, 9. Twenty-one years later, The Mousetrap has become the longest running play ever, totting up 8,717 performances in London and earning $7.5 million. Prichard, now 30 and a gentleman farmer in Wales, declined to comment...
...being billed as "Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now," but a reading of the Du Maurier story from which the adaptation has been made makes one appreciate Roeg and Screenwriters Scott and Bryant all the more. Film and story share certain basic elements of plot and an ending of cruel surprise. The story is detached, almost cursory. Roeg and his collaborators have constructed an intricate, intense speculation about levels of perception and reality. Thanks also to the superb performances of Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, Don't Look Now has in abundance what most other...
Despite a good voice, Eden Murray's real ability lies less in singing than in acting. She plays Buttercup with a (stuffed) belly-slapping assurance which is realized by her confidence and maturity as an actress. Since Buttercup is the glue that joins together the outlandish plot of Pinafore any successful production must rely heavily on the actress playing the part. Eden Murray's Buttercup is a major portion of this Pinafore's success...
...wonders as the convoluted plot unfolds what drew the director to this particular Shakespearean romance: he seems to have made only the effort necessary to relate its story. He falls short of animating the tale with any original scheme of reading or staging...
...flend in search of a potato salad recipe. The playing out of these situations takes us through a beauty contest for cows, the trauma of a lost barometer, a Firesign Theatre-type game show called "Justify Your Existence" and a Kafkaesque IQ test. The show does have a plot, however disguised it is in these absurd digressions...