A Study Guide for Ira Levin's "Deathtrap"
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Deathtrap
Ira Levin
1978
Introduction
Deathtrap is a two-act play from the pen of American playwright Ira Levin. The play, one of the longest-running comedy thrillers in Broadway history, opened at the Music Box Theatre on February 26, 1978. The final months of its four-year run, which ended on June 13, 1982, were at New York's Biltmore Theatre (now called the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre). At the same time, the play ran at London's Garrick Theatre from 1978 to 1981. In a footnote to theatrical history, Marian Seldes, who played the part of Myra Bruhl, did so for the play's entire New York run of 1,793 performances.
Deathtrap earned a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Play for 1978 (losing to Da, by Irish playwright Hugh Leonard) and won the Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar
) Award for best play in 1980. The source of the play's long-running appeal continues to be its fiendishly clever plot. The core of the play is the corrosive envy that appears to be felt by once-successful playwright Sidney Bruhl, whose career has hit the skids. Sidney, however, receives in the mail a manuscript copy of a play titled Deathtrap. According to Sidney, the play, written by a former student named Clifford Anderson, is a perfect example of a murder mystery/thriller, one that could become a smash hit and revive his, Sidney's, flagging career, if only he could knock off Clifford and purloin his play. What follows are a series of ingenious plot twists, subterfuges, and feints that mislead the audience about the true nature of the events taking place.
A published edition of Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts is available from Random House (1979). Also available is an edition from Dramatists Play Service, (1979), which includes not only the script but also production notes, including a set diagram, a prop inventory, set changes as the play proceeds, and an inventory of costumes for the play's five actors.
Author Biography
Levin Was Born In New York City On August 27, 1929, To Russian Immigrants Charles Levin And