Audrey Hepburn received an Oscar nomination for her “blind” acting in the 1967 movie that still has the power to chill.
While Karina Jones, who has been blind since the age of 13, makes an efficient job of Susy, this production is as thrilling as a necrotic aspidistra.
The risible plot – bad guys in search of a drug-filled doll given to Susy’s husband at an airport and stolen from the flat by neighbour Gloria – is not helped by a series of outrageously unconvincing performances (Shannon Rewcroft’s Gloria excepted).
Sandwiched between the ham, Ms Jones struggles to convince us she is in a state of desperate panic by screaming and tripping over furniture she had previously negotiated with ease.
Director Alastair Whatley fails to find a way through the absurdly labyrinthine plot or the thicket of thriller tropes and the climax in which the darkened flat levels the playing field is woefully mishandled in spite of spilt petrol, lighted matches, ammonia-in-the-face and the infamous fridge light everyone forgets about. Bother ye not.
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WAIT UNTIL DARK Richmond Theatre, until tomorrow (then touring until December 2). Tickets: 0844 871 7651