In the Heat of the Night
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 28, 2010
Closed Apr 25, 2010
Opened Mar 28, 2010
Closed Apr 25, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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This World Premiere adaptation of John Ball's In the Heat of the Night is based on the award-winning book that inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series.
It's 1962. A hot August night lies heavy over the small town of Argo, Alabama. A dead white man is discovered and the local police arrest a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs. The police discover that their prime suspect is in fact a homicide detective from California. As it happens, Tibbs becomes the racially tense community's single hope in solving a brutal murder that is turning up no witnesses, no motives and no clues.
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While it initially gained fame over 40 years ago as a novel, and then an Academy Award-winning film as well as a TV series,
In the Heat of the Night, John Ball's 1965 exploration of interracial strife in Alabama, proves still topical in Matt Pelfrey's succinct stage adaptation, now being presented by Godlight Theatre Company at 59E59 Theaters. Better still, in director Joe Tantalo's sure hands, the result is a tight -- and timely -- little thriller.
The setting is pretty tight as well. Getting maximum use out of a miniscule black box space, designer Maruti Evans has placed the audience, only two rows deep, on all four sides of what starts out -- pre-"curtain" -- as a voile-draped enclosure[...]