Shakespeare & Company to Stage Rupert Holmes' ACCOMPLICE, 9/21-11/10

Shakespeare & Company will launch their Fall & Winter Season with this explosively exciting and comedic affair. A daring and sexy thriller, this British comedy is one twisted knot of tension, sure to delight and entertain you!

Tickets range from $15 to $50. Shakespeare & Company offers a wide range of discount options, including: group, student, senior citizen, military, teacher and the very popular 40% Berkshire Resident Discount. The show will run September 21 - November 10 at Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.

For customized group visits-which may include artist talkbacks, tours, and catered events-contact the Group Sales office at (413) 637-1199, ext. 132. The Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre is air-conditioned, hearing aid assisted and wheelchair accessible.

Accomplice, which won the prestigious Edgar Award (the 'Oscar of Crime') and the Dramalogue Award for Best Play, begins like many conventional English thrillers. It is set in a lovely country house where a wife and her lover plan to murder her stuffy husband. Conventional, yes? Well buckle up, becauseAccomplice has enough plot twists, character twists and compromising situations to spin the British comic-thriller genre on its ear. Director Stephen Rothman (Parasite Drag2012) has lured back his partners in crime from last summer's dark comedy, Parasite Drag, to literally take a stab at this intricately hilarious and deceptive comedy-thriller.

A prolific author, singer-songwriter, musician and playwright, Holmes' has created a script that crackles with witty references to well-known thrillers including, The Mouse Trap and Death Trap, soap operas and even dance instructor Arthur Murray. It's guaranteed to keep you guessing until the very end, and if not, well the director says dinner is on him: "As long as you promise me that you have never read, seen, or heard about the way Accomplice works, I will personally buy any audience member dinner if they answer to how the play will conclude after the first act ends," Rothman says with a laugh.

Rothman, who has previously directed the play over a decade ago, is delighted to be revisiting the play this season with Shakespeare & Company: "Rupert Holmes is a master story teller who has written an evening of scares, laughs, and surprises that I find so unique and invigorating as a director that I could not resist returning to the scene of the crime." Rothman continues, "I have a real passion for this unique play and have had two previous experiences with it. And I would be thrilled to explore this mystery/comedy/roller-coaster ride again with this amazing group of actors."

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