The Big Sleep

Archive Listings for The Big Sleep

T01858270270 (MILLSONNING11) World PremiereProducer The Mill Sonning. Director Alvin Rakoff. Design Eileen Diss. Costume Jane Kidd. Lighting Matthew Biss. Performer Simon Merrells (Philip Marlowe). Performer Samantha Coughlan. Performer Anna Doolan. Performer Martyn Stanbridge.
20 Oct 11 to 26 Nov 11	The Mill, Sonning :: V739 listing details L775020660

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Play :: "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars ..." The four million dollars is General Sternwood, an ailing old man. He has two beautiful sexy daughters - one a high-living gambler, the other a fast-living rebel. The General is being blackmailed, and to stop the malicious threats hires Phillip Marlowe, a Private Eye with a dislike for guns but a liking for smart dangerous women. Marlowe is soon immersed in a world of deceit and double-cross. And then he stumbles across the first corpse ... "Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead."

Book by	Raymond Chandler
Adapted by	Alvin Rakoff
Adapted by	John D Rakoff