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‘Wait Until Dark’ is a needlessly overstuffed and convoluted thriller at the Shaw Festival

Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of the classic Broadway play needs to cut to the chase and trim all its excessive backstory. 

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Sochi Fried as Susan and Eponine Lee as Gloria in “Wait Until Dark.”


NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Wait Until Dark,” an adaptation of the Broadway thriller of the same name, later turned into a 1967 film starring Audrey Hepburn, should really be renamed “Wait in the Dark.” Because that’s what audiences are forced to do as they watch this needlessly convoluted and glacially paced play, now running at the Shaw Festival. 

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Joshua Chong

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