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Mounds' `The Hollow' is just a basic whodunnit, but theydunnit well; THEATER REVIEW: The Starting Gate production of the Agatha Christie play offers some standout acting, a strong sense of time and place, and a surprise ending.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20080514
Author:Beard, William Randall

Byline: WILLIAM RANDALL BEARD

Special to the Star Tribune

Starting Gate Productions concludes its season devoted to women playwrights with Agatha Christie's "The Hollow." Christie was not a great playwright, but she certainly knew her way around a murder mystery, and in Starting Gate's idiomatic production, it makes for first-rate entertainment.

This entire production conveyed the aura of another age. In the early 1950s, a group of elegant Brits gather at a country house for the weekend. And it is so veddy British! The play evolves at a rather languorous pace, with a ...

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