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Review: 'Sleuth' is not funny, and it's far too long
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Kanawha Players' "Sleuth" plods through two acts with 120 minutes of exhausting dialogue between only two actors. Large portions of the play were like sitting in a detective-fiction lecture series with a professor obsessed with the sound of his own voice.
Replete with an overabundance of insider jokes no one in the audience quite understood and deathlike pauses where laughter should have been, "Sleuth" falls devastatingly short of entertaining.
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Review: 'Sleuth' is not funny, and it's far too long
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Kanawha Players' "Sleuth" plods through two acts with 120 minutes of exhausting dialogue between only two actors. Large portions of the play were like sitting in a detective-fiction lecture series with a professor obsessed with the sound of his own voice.
Replete with an overabundance of insider jokes no one in the audience quite understood and deathlike pauses where laughter should have been, "Sleuth" falls devastatingly short of entertaining.
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