INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
directed the play that has Behnam Amoukhalili, Ali Abdolrahimzadeh, Mohammadali Aghaei, Sajjad Jafari, Fatemeh Shoghi, Shakiba Motazedi, and
Ardalan Razmi in the cast, Honaronline reported.The play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924
by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.The play is set on the first floor of a house in Mayfair, London, in 1929
The story concerns two young university students, Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo, who do something horrible to express their supposed
intellectual superiority.For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the fun of the thing, Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend,
Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan
They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father,
After the party, one guest, a former professor of the murderers named Rupert Cadell, returns and contrives to open the chest
He is shocked and ashamed that they have acted in response to his own declarations of amorality
The play ends with this quandary unresolved.In 1948, Alfred Hitchcock made a film of the same name based on the play, though with some
The setting is relocated to 1940s New York City, and the names of all of the characters, with the exception of Rupert Cadell, are altered
In the film, Cadell is played by James Stewart
Hitchcock's is the only feature film version of the play to date.In 1983, Rope was dramatized as a BBC Radio 4 Drama for Saturday Night
Theater, starring Alan Rickman as Cadell.Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) was an English playwright and novelist
He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J
Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey
aspects of inter-war London Street culture
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This article first appeared/also appeared in Tehran Times
