20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
Grindstone Theatre combines veteran talent with up-and-comers in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
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'I'm pretty sure I saw one every day,' says the artistic director of Edmonton's Grindstone Theatre. 'It was somewhere around 40 shows. Like, it was a lot of shows. And there was one in particular that really stuck with me.'
That was A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder, which in 2013 was busy pulling in impressive crowds at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway and eventually winning multiple Tony Awards. If the name of the show doesn't ring a bell you might be familiar with the source novel from 1907, Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal. But if you're going to be honest and admit that you've never heard of that book until just this minute, it's still possible that you've watched or at least heard of the classic 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, which featured a tour-de-force performance by Alec Guinness playing multiple members of the D'Ascoyne family as they're dispatched in various gruesome ways.
