Paperback PLAY 'Sleuth' A play by Anthony Shaffer Samuel French, Inc. 1970

Paperback PLAY 'Sleuth' A play by Anthony Shaffer Samuel French, Inc. 1970 Soft cover - smaller stapled booklet, yellow covers black print. Very Good pre-owned condition, no names, clean text. Size 7" x 5" x .25", 76 pages Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore; and a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirizing the genre at the same as using its technical devices to the full. It is a dramatic study of sexual conflict and jealousy between an older and a younger man; as well as a subtle psychological portrait of an inadequate and sexually-obsessed middle-aged man. Sleuth premiered in 1970 at Brighton Theatre Royal and won a prolonged standing ovation. It transferred to St Martin's Theatre and ran for more than 2,300 performances in London's West End. After that, it moved to Broadway's Music Box Theatre where it ran for more than 2,000 performances and garnered a Tony Award for best play of the year. The 1972 film version of Sleuth starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, for which Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay. Thirty-five years later, Michael Caine took on the older role opposite Jude Law, in a version directed by Kenneth Branagh with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. All measurements & weights given are approximate. We ship using used materials. TB771s