The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays Charles Ludlum
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

As a new playwright the thing that most caught my attention from Charles Ludlum's play "The Mystery of Irma Vep" was the use of two actors and how many ideas were borrowed from other plays. In short: Everyman Theater's current production of Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep is the most fun you can have indoors right now without having to go to confession immediately afterward. Charles Ludlam's play, subtitled “A Penny Dreadful,” is a mashup of vaudevillian gags, literary allusions and melodramatic conceits written for two actors to play eight roles between them. This weekend is the final run of Pauline Production's The Mystery of Irma Vep. There are moments in Kansas City Repertory's delightfully absurd production of “The Mystery of Irma Vep” when you may decide you're watching a duel of titans. In the night, where wolves howl and prowl the grounds, where an intruder breaks in and accosts Lady Enid, and where—in one of many statements of the obvious that this play tweaks—people are not always who they appear to be, or are not only who they appear to be. » Tony-Nominated Revival of Annie Will Launch U.S. This is a two-person comedy with both actors playing all characters. I make up one-half of the cast along with Equity acting star Jeannine Haas. Charles Ludlam's two-man satirical play The Mystery of Irma Vep will play the Bay Street Theatre July 2-28. The Mystery of Irma Vep is convoluted play involving the dark gothic goings-on at a remote manor deep in the mist shrouded (and wolf infested) moors.