Arts & Culture

Salisbury Playhouse’s spring/summer season opens in the Main House with a new production of Ira Levin’s comedy thriller, Deathtrap, which runs from Thursday 4 to Saturday 27 February.

Sidney Bruhl is a Broadway playwright who has failed to have a hit in some time and is now suffering from writer’s block. When a young writer, Clifford, arrives on the doorstep of his remote home with a new script Sidney plans to kill him and pass off the play as his own. But is this play everything it first appears to be?

The cast includes Kim Wall, whose television credits include Armstrong and Miller, as Sidney Bruhl and Sam Phillips, who stars in the BBC’s The Syndicate and the recent feature film Far from the Madding Crowd, as Clifford Anderson. Julien Ball, whose television appearances include Law & Order UK, plays Porter Milgrim and Beverley Klein, who was in the original cast of Les Misérables and whose television credits include Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge, plays Helga ten Dorp.

Deathtrap is directed by Adam Penford, who directed Stepping Out at Salisbury Playhouse and A Small Family Business at the National Theatre and is Revival Director for One Man, Two Guvnors. 

Deathtrap is designed by Morgan Large, whose many theatre credits include Vincent and Flavia’s West End productions and tours of Midnight Tango and Dance ‘til Dawn. The creative team is completed by lighting designer James Whiteside (Monsieur Popular, Bath Theatre Royal), sound designers Ben and Max Ringham (The Ladykillers, West End and UK tour) and video designer Duncan McLean (The Bodyguard and Shrek the Musical, West End and UK tours).

Deathtrap holds the record for the longest running comedy thriller on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.

This ingenious play within a play runs in the Main House from Thursday 4 to Saturday 27 February. For tickets or further information please contact the Ticket Office on 01722 320333 or visit www.salisburyplayhouse.com.