Premiered 2008 at the Vertigo Theatre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| NOIRVILLE - a small town with a big secret… A burned-out city cop takes on the job as Sheriff in a small town, only to find more danger than he ever faced on the mean streets of the big city. As the sun sets over the town, its pretty sunlit world turns into a place of darkness, deception and decadence, where nothing is quite what it seems. |
"Murder in Noirville" was nominated for two awards for the 2008 Betty Mitchell Awards (Calgary's version of the Tony Awards).
REVIEWS FROM:
= The Calgary Herald 
= The Calgary Sun 
= Canada.com
"Peter Colley's new play is a crackerjack parody destined
to be a staple of regional theatres everywhere."
"A smart and stylish production - a lively and broadly
entertaining addition to the whodunit genre."
"Colley has a gift at capturing the flavor of the old film
noir movies especially in his characters and their dialogue."
"Colley creates a tightly-drawn two-act world... and
obviously knows well the conventions of the cautionary darkness that shines
through such hard-boiled Hollywood classic tales from the 1940s and 1950s as The
Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Touch Of Evil - and he knows too, when to
play with those conventions, and when to simply play along with them, creating
an engaging comic rhythm."
"Colley has an affection for the hard-boiled detective flicks
of the 1940s which makes for some great laughs."
"Pick of the week."
"Peter Colley's new play embodies the very essence of film noir
onstage."
"Joe (the hero) is as fast on the verbal draw as any
laconic film-noir anti-hero (think Bogart's Philip Marlowe)."
"The real danger in this town is the sensuous and
serpentine Evelyn MacAllister (Chantal Perron). Perron is dynamite as a
sultry Veronica Lake or Lauren Bacall type - and, boy, does she do justice to the
sexy period costumes."
"A surprising plot portrayed by
a spirited five-member cast."
To read an interview with Peter Colley on film noir by The Calgary Herald: CLICK HERE.
To see an interview with the playwright on City TV: CLICK HERE
Film-noir style musical score available by Andrew Blizzard
Photos copyright Benjamin La ird
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