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Thoughts on The Desperate Hours
Who has not watched an Alfred Hitchcock film and not wanted to jump out of their seat with anticipation? I remember being so concerned about many of Hitchcock’s characters and so engrossed in their stories that I could not move for fright and anticipation.
America has a fascination with criminals and their crimes. One only need point to the popularity of the TV series Law and Order and all of its various spin-offs and imitations to make the case that we love stories about crime and the law. Perhaps they comfort us with the belief that justice will prevail. Although, in modern television, this is not always true.
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Cast of The Desperate Hours
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Michael Poisson
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Rick McVey, Frank Taylor Green, Ashley Campos & Mary Lucy Bivins
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Seth Marstrand, Rick McVey, Michael Poisson & Eugene Wolf
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Kevin O'Bryan & Nicholas Piper
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Nicholas Piper & Rick McVey
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Scenes from THE DESPERATE HOURS
The Desperate Hours
by Joseph Hayes
Based on the 1954 thriller novel and made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. A trio of escaped convicts take over a unassuming Midwest suburbia home as their base of operations. The convicts seek to take revenge on the police who are fast on their trail. Tensions rise as the family struggles with their own ideas of honor and survival. As the police close in, ranks break, making an intense situation even more explosive.
Stage: Barter Theatre
Cast & Credits
Cast features Michael Poisson, Mary Lucy Bivins, Rick McVey, Ashley Campos, Nicholas Piper, Ezra Colon, Frank Taylor Green, Eugene Wolf and Seth Marstrand
Director: Richard Rose
