May 20-21, 2022
NOIR
NOIR
Written by Stan Werse
Directed by Steve Yakutis
AD Kenli Doss
With Gary Giurbino, Jean Childers Arnold, Michael Curry, Eric-Jon Tasker
An homage to the gritty black-and-white movie crime dramas of the past - movies like “The Maltese Falcon,” “The Big Sleep,” and “Double Indemnity.”
The play is the story of an idealistic, young police detective - Clay Holden - who is promoted after throwing a suspect out of a high-rise window in self-defense. Clay is respected by his boss - Lieutenant Grimes - but there’s something about his story that his new partner - McQue - doesn’t buy.
Clay falls in love with the beautiful and rich Helen Lydecker. She’s being blackmailed by a man named Fritz Klein. She asks Clay to frighten him away. He reluctantly agrees but inadvertently kills Klein. He’s then assigned to his first big case, an unsolved murder. The victim’s name? Fritz Klein.
Clay drags his feet as Grimes tries to help Clay solve the case. The more the facts come out, the more it seems to Clay as if he’s been set up. And all the while, McQue is trying to solve the riddle of who Clay Holden really is.
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