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Kill Me Like You Mean It
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Delightful, Funny, Absorbing, Ambitious, Entertaining
About the show
Film noir for the stage, a world of rapid-fire dialogue, smoking guns, and femmes fatale. More…
Ben Farrell, Private Investigator, discovers that his cases are appearing on the pages of a popular pulp serial… but the crimes are being penned before they happen in real life. The mystery grows darker still when Farrell reads his own death in the prophetic pages.
Member Reviews (1)
MEMBERS SAY:
Delightful, Funny, Absorbing, Ambitious, Entertaining
100
Ambitious, Absorbing, Delightful, Entertaining, Funny
October 12th, 2018
See it if If you like funny musicals
Don't see it if You don't like musicals
"A high concept pastiche of film noir genre stereotypes that is hilarious when the stars align but could do with some tightening and cuts...When the shenanigans on stage work, they work fabulously. Alas, not everything always works in this production."
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"While none of the performances is vaguely as charismatic or vocally potent as those of the great film noir stars (think Bogart, Mitchum, Bacall, and Stanwyck), the actors are moderately reasonable facsimiles. Unfortunately, their characters are little more than cardboard attitudes, and “Kill Me ...
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"Stylish but silly, Kill Me Like You Mean It (as one can infer from the title) seems as much an homage to film noir spoofs as it is to film noir itself. As with any of these detective stories, the plot is convoluted and takes some effort to follow. If they don’t take the mystery seriously, why s...
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"Kill Me Like You Mean It is a fascinating glimpse into the sort of murder mystery Albert Camus might write. It's both a thrilling story and an intellectual exercise, dressed in the classic trappings of film noir."
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