Imagine being snowed in with a group of strangers, and one of them is a murderer.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the chilling premise behind\u00a0A Killing Snow,\u00a0onstage at Vertigo Theatre through April 12, where a familiar Canadian reality becomes the ultimate trap. <\/p>\n
A blizzard locks the characters inside, killing phone service and electricity. With nowhere to go and nothing but time, it soon becomes clear the strangers have more in common than first thought.<\/p>\n
And then someone dies.<\/p>\n
Playwright Paul Ciufo has seen\u00a0A Killing Snow\u00a0staged about half a dozen times, but the Vertigo run marks just the second professional production of the play.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really thrilling to see the new interpretation,\u201d Ciufo said. \u201cIf you\u2019re a control freak, write novels. If you\u2019re a playwright, you\u2019re giving over a blueprint to people who are going to build the building.\u201d<\/p>\n
Audience response is part of what keeps the play alive for him, Ciufo says he even checks in with patrons at intermission to see how confident they are in their guesses of the suspect.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven seeing the same production two nights back to back, the audience is different,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are little subtle differences night to night. That\u2019s the joy of live theatre versus something like film.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ciufo says the challenge of writing in the genre means building that uncertainty in from the beginning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf only one of them seems guilty, that\u2019s no fun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He calls the human mind a predictor machine, and writes to that fact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s that moment where you think, \u2018Aha,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then something shifts, and you\u2019re not so sure anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Killing Snow\u00a0runs through April 12 at Vertigo Theatre.<\/p>\n
Ticket information is available at vertigotheatre.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine being snowed in with a group of strangers, and one of them is a murderer. That\u2019s the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-586347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}