Dial M for Murderby Frederick Knott
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OLNEY THEATRE CENTER
directed by Jason King Jones costumes by Seth Gilbert lighting by Sonya Dowhaluk photos by Stan Barouh |
"By sheer dint of style, “Dial ‘M’” is the sturdiest bet. The set looks like a 1950s movie: The shapes are all boxy (even the lampshades), and the gentle browns and blues have a Technicolor hue. Frederick Knott’s London-set thriller is intensely old school, as you may recall from the 1954 movie...The production has good taste."
-Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
"Charlie Calvert’s set design is perfect vintage 1950s upper middle class. The multiple levels allow for visual variation and help create wonderful focal points for the action. Calvert let us know this is a fancy apartment, not a house, with his floating ceiling beams and moldings. We know before the play starts that the residents are very comfortable, but not royalty or millionaires."
-Susan Brall, DC Theatre Arts
"The characters certainly have wonderful setting in which to plot and plan a murder. Scenic designer Charles Calvert has provided an impressive London apartment, detailed, with perfect period furniture and other accents, down to the bric-a-brac on the shelves. I think Grace Kelly would have been right at home."
-Jeffrey Walker, DC Theatre Scene
-Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
"Charlie Calvert’s set design is perfect vintage 1950s upper middle class. The multiple levels allow for visual variation and help create wonderful focal points for the action. Calvert let us know this is a fancy apartment, not a house, with his floating ceiling beams and moldings. We know before the play starts that the residents are very comfortable, but not royalty or millionaires."
-Susan Brall, DC Theatre Arts
"The characters certainly have wonderful setting in which to plot and plan a murder. Scenic designer Charles Calvert has provided an impressive London apartment, detailed, with perfect period furniture and other accents, down to the bric-a-brac on the shelves. I think Grace Kelly would have been right at home."
-Jeffrey Walker, DC Theatre Scene
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