Mindgame (Modern Playwrights) (Oberon Modern Plays)

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We also meet a very nervous psychiatric nurse, Paisley (played by Sarah Wynne Kordas). Things get seriously gritty on her arrival. What is in that ‘liver’ sandwich? Mindgame 2 – photocredit, Simon Cooper

Mindgame is a really smart fast-paced play. It delves into the darkest psyche of the human condition of sociopaths and their dissociative behaviour. It challenges you to question, who should you believe? Set in a doctor’s office in Fairfields, an asylum for the criminally insane, we first meet Styler (played by Andrew Ryan), a writer of “true crime” stories. We hear that he has come here to do research for his next book. He is eager to interview one of the patients known as Easterman, a notorious serial killer. We hear he has been waiting to meet the doctor for two hours having driven for three and a half hours to get to the meeting. Mindgame 3 – photocredit, Simon CooperMark Styler, a writer of true crime stories, who also wrote in memory of his mother. He comes to Fairfields hoping to interview a serial killer for a new book. Following the early closure of New Faces juke box musical All or Nothing, Horowitz’s 1999 psychological thriller Mindgame is revived for three weeks at the Ambassadors Theatre. The story itself is well conceived and is very cleverly written ( as we would expect from Mr Horowitz). I would have loved to have seen the full stage production.

It is a short book but it gets over some of my complaints about short books as I had no problem at all picturing the actors on the described stage and it certainly creates an atmosphere. This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources.

Mindgame

Who can you trust? Whose reality do you believe? Everything just seems a little bit off. Nothing appears as it seems. No, I’m not watching fox news. Does it work as well as a book about a play, I am really not sure. As I set down these note, I still don't know what mark I am going to give it. I hope that I have decided before I start typing, tomorrow.