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By TUTT STAPP HARRIS
and
SHARON KILPATRICK
PtrEAAC
Attention to detail and the relish for the flavor of an Agatha Christie mystery brought “Love from a Stranger” to life at RCHS last weekend.
Ms. Christie’s elegant thriller of a young woman’s whirlwind romance and marriage to a virtual stranger is brimming with Englishness, which director Don Bomberger’s careful crafting brought out, from the attention given to the understated Brisith humor to the strident pink gloves on the flamboyant Aunt Lulu.
The spine-tingling final scene drew much of its pleasure from the subtle transition of an ordinary evening at home into a terrifying play of words between a murdurer and his intended victim. Yet, little in their outward behaviour changed—they went on sipping coffee and brandies in the most impervious English way imaginable. Such carefully directed scenes gave the show style and polish.
To fully appreciate how Cecily Harrington, the young woman soon to be swept off her feet by an American stranger, feels about her life as a London secretary and her five-year engagement to earnest, hard-working Nigel, one would have to have been there to hear Julie Burke deliver the words “dull” and “tepid.”
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