Rope
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 4, 2005
Closed Dec 23, 2005

Playing at
The Zipper Factory

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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 2 intermission)

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Drama Dept., True Love Productions and The Zipper present Rope, the play that the Alfred Hitchcock movie is based on. This 1929 murder mystery by Patrick Hamilton is loosely based on the Leopold & Loeb murder case. The story depicts two Oxford students who attempt the perfect murder to prove they are above ordinary people. David Warren directs.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

The Zipper Factory
336 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The true-life crime committed by so-called "thrill killers" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb continues to fascinate audiences. This year alone, we've seen an Off-Broadway musical by Stephen Dolginoff titled Thrill Me and an Off-Off-Broadway play by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Golden Age, both inspired in whole or in part by the brutal 1924 murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, whom Leopold and Loeb slew simply for the thrill of it. Now the very first dramatic treatment of the story, penned in 1929 by Patrick Hamilton, returns to the stage in a flawed but compelling revival directed by David Warren.

In Rope, which was the basis for a 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock, Hamilton changed many details in [...]

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Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Dec 5, 2005