`Contains Violence` - Hitchcock Re-hash???

Question:Why every director and/or writer who depicts a shower scene and/or voyeurism has to drag poor old Hitch into it is anyone`s guess. That they do so is an act of complete savagery and exploitation.

This new play, `Contains Violence`, uses the old man to bolster the play`s ethos which is about voyeurism and where each member of the audience is given binoculars and so on to eavesdrop upon the stage action (two couples in adjacent apartments)

Sounds interesting, though.

And quite unnecessary to drag in the old man.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Why every director and/or writer who depicts a shower scene and/or voyeurism has to drag poor old Hitch into it is anyone`s guess. That they do so is an act of complete savagery and exploitation.

This new play, `Contains Violence`, uses the old man to bolster the play`s ethos which is about voyeurism and where each member of the audience is given binoculars and so on to eavesdrop upon the stage action (two couples in adjacent apartments)

Sounds interesting, though.

And quite unnecessary to drag in the old man.

It sounds to me like a gimmick which newspapers and TV will pick up on and thereby give the play a lot of free publicity.
If the play is any good it wouldn't need such gimmickry to keep the audience interested.
The use of a "Hitchcockian" plot device also seems like unnecessary gimmickry to me.

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http://www.borgus.com/think/hitch.htm