If you’re able to get over the eyebrow raising subject matter, Thrill Me can offer one of the most unusual and visceral theatrical experiences around. Disturbing but oddly moving and entrancing, it offers a unique look into the nature of evil and crime. Worth a visit, if only for a story to tell!
However, there is an uncertainty of tone about the piece as a whole that does not entirely convince. The evening starts as a straight-forward thriller but then seems to change as the plot twists multiply into a knowing send-up of the genre instead. There is nothing wrong with this, but at points, particularly in the rapid-fire, almost farcical later scenes it was not clear which view should predominate, whether one was supposed to empathise or simply laugh at the characters. On the night I visited there was clearly some laughter in the wrong places, and the audience did not know what to make of the emotional tone.
