Details

Description: William has written and is directing a murder mystery steeped in Hitchcockian dread and 1920s film noir. To bring it to life, he's gathered his former classmates from an English Dramatic Academy for a single night of rehearsals inside a creaky, centuries-old London theater. The script is tightly controlled. The cast is hand-picked. What happens next is anything but. As the night wears on, hidden affairs, buried betrayals, and dangerous ambitions crack the surface. William rewrites scenes on the fly, manipulating his fellow actors' egos and desires as deftly as he manipulates the characters on the page. Flashbacks to 1922 blur the boundaries between then and now, between fiction and something far more sinister unfolding in real time. What began as a rehearsal becomes a trap. In twist after twist, the four actors try to outwit each other — until the violence stops being theatrical. By the final act, no one in the room, and no one watching, can be certain who is performing and who is in genuine danger.