Deathtrap (1978)

Written by Ira Levin
Directed by Robert Moore
Cast: John Wood, Victor Garber, Marian Seldes, Marian Winters, Richard Woods

Act I, Scene 1 Sidney Bruhl, a previously successful playwright, has had a series of box office flops and is having trouble writing. Sidney mimics reading a play that he tells his wife, Myra, he has received from a student of his, Clifford Anderson. Sidney asserts that the student's play is a certain hit.