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THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION
by Norman Lock

  • PREMIÈRED EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 1996 - THE PLEASANCE
  • PRESENTED BY GUY MASTERSON PRODUCTIONS
  • written by Norman Lock
  • performed by Beth Fitzgerald, Tony Boncza & Simon Merrells
  • directed by Guy Masterson
  • 90 minute comedy-thriller

Take a 30 something, happy, sappy, yuppie couple, Carl and Marion, who have earned their comfy, self-contained, suburban existence ... throw into their midst a man - Steve - obsessed with murderous revenge, a revenge which happens to include them ... add seduction and terror ... and their home becomes a prison ... a house of correction.

Reviews:

"This is a gripping, individualistic piece which reels from black comedy to sick thrills." WINNER: STAGE AWARD FOR ACTING EXCELLENCE - BETH FITZGERALD (The Stage 15/08/96)

"With a staggeringly energetic tempo throughout, this show moves from sitcom to Hitchcock, mingling the two so neatly that sometimes you don't know what you're watching." (Naked 11/08/96)

"We are kept on the edge of our seats as events move towards a climax beyond expectation." (The Scotsman 30/08/96)

"Anyway you look at it, Lock's play is first, last and always a superior mystery-comedy-thriller ... an astonishing specimen of a nearly extinct genre" (LA Times)

"Lock's weapon is words and he uses them well ... like a nightmare that wakes you up shaking, forcing you to reassess your life" (LA Life)


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