Spatter Pattern Extends at Playwrights Horizons
by Broadway Staff • Oct 14, 2004
Playwrights Horizons has announced a one week extension for its production of Neal Bell's Spatter Pattern or, How I Got Away With It. The show, directed by Michael Greif, will now run at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater through October 31.
Spatter Pattern tracks the story of a screenwriter Peter Frechette who becomes entangled in the life of a university professor Darren Pettie under investigation for a grisly murder. What begins as self-interest soon gives way to empathy, and a bond between men from seemingly opposite worlds inexorably deepens. In addition to Frechette and Pettie, the cast includes John Lavelle and Deirdre O'Connell.
Spatter Pattern tracks the story of a screenwriter Peter Frechette who becomes entangled in the life of a university professor Darren Pettie under investigation for a grisly murder. What begins as self-interest soon gives way to empathy, and a bond between men from seemingly opposite worlds inexorably deepens. In addition to Frechette and Pettie, the cast includes John Lavelle and Deirdre O'Connell.
The production opened on October 10 to mostly positive reviews. In his Broadway.com Review of the play, Edward Karam wrote: "Neal Bell's new 90-minute play is a gem about loss, despair, and the way a death can cripple survivors and permanently scar their lives. It's deeply sad, suffused with sympathy and cleverly ironic in its subtitle: How I Got Away With It. Director Michael Greif's marvelous production ratchets up the tension by degrees yet keeps the pace crisp, while Mark Wendland's mobile gray walls and spare furnishings, and Kevin Adams's startling noirish lighting enhance the disturbing journey. It's one that you shouldn't miss."