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The threat of having any one of your senses taken away can be frightening, but when you consider that condition could make you a target, the fright start to multiply. Within that fright lays the power of Frederick Knott’s play, Wait Until Dark. As the audience, we aren’t the protagonist—a wife, blind, home alone—but we immediately start to feel her vulnerability as con men target and manipulate her in a bizarre hunt for, of all things, a baby doll. The intense anxiety of seeing what another can’t serves to heighten the dramatic tension of Contemporary Theatre of Dallas’ production of the play, directed by Sharon Benge. Then, day turns to night, an atmospheric ally for our protagonist, and it’s the cons who are blind in the fight. Resist the temptation to watch the Audrey Hepburn film until you’ve seen Wait Until Dark live, at 5601 Sears St. Performances take place August 15-September 7, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays (no show August 17). Tickets are $22-$32. Visit contemporarytheatreofdallas.com.
Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: Aug. 15. Continues through Sept. 7, 2014
