Mindgame (Modern Playwrights) (Oberon Modern Plays)

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A thriller that actually manages to thrill, and a very dark comedy that twists and spirals towards a completely unexpected ending.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It introduces a detective by the name of Daniel Hawthorne - a rather dark and dangerous man whom I actually met on the set of Injustice. However, theatre has always been his first love and although Mindgame is his first play he has followed it with a study of the last years of Shackleton, and a musical, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T. The story itself is well conceived and is very cleverly written ( as we would expect from Mr Horowitz). Arriving at a hospital for the criminally insane, Styler prepares to speak to murderer Easterman, but ends up clashing with Dr Farquhar about how the interview will take place.

In the end, the actors outperform their characters and the set upstages the play, which is far too static to begin with — and much too silly to take seriously. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. At least, that's my version of events and that's what counts here because, very unusually, I actually appear in the book as his not entirely successful sidekick; the Watson to his Holmes. This is a fabulous peice of writting, but having performed this play in 2007, I have to say that the more you read it, the more of what Horowitz intended for you to see is revealled.

This dark comedy was the perfect antidote for me personally after beginning and discarding five books in a row (maybe more). Anthony Horowitz is best known for such television programmes as Poirot, Murder Most Horrid, and Midsomer Murders - for wich he has written many episodes. She cannot undo the strait jacket straps, and as she bends down to get the scalpel from Easterman, he awakens and grabs her, then stabs her behind a curtain. One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say.

This began with two Sherlock Holmes continuation novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty, followed by my entry into the world of James Bond with Trigger Mortis. Horowitz's attempts to shock and chill turns into a complete farce -the nearest I got to feeling a chill was from the ice in the Coca-Cola I drank during the interval. Hollywood and Britpic vet Russell, whose output includes the iconic “Lair of the White Worm,” is hardly a stranger to Gothic material. But while he shows his technical know-how in the sleight-of-hand staging, he can’t resist tossing in certain Grand Guignol effects that only undermine the suspense.After recently having read both of the author's two book mini series, I was sure that this was going to be a bit different too. In the end, Styler is forced to believe he is Easterman, however it is never explicitly revealed to the audience who is actually who. Perhaps because Styler has been thrown off-stride by the slutty getup worn by Nurse Plimpton (Kathleen McNenny, in the Barbara Steele role), he fails to convince the eccentric psychiatrist that his literary intentions are honorable.