“The Girl on the Train” is just the kind of play you want when you think of attending the theater. It’s a play you can sink your teeth into, a murder-mystery/whodunit with the sort of drawing room drama you yearn for as a theater goer, not just something musical or comedic. Not that there is anything wrong with musicals or comedies – but this is real stagecraft, with personalities that reveal themselves and plot twists that keep you on your toes.
If you read books or love the cinema, you’ll know that “The Girl on the Train” was both a book and a movie. I did not read the book, but I did see the movie starring Emily Blunt. I guess it was too many years ago, because all I remember is Blunt sitting on a train and then someone going missing. What intrigued me about the play was how you transpose that, from a moving railroad car to a static stage. The play does that with remarkable ease and loses none of the drama or intrigue in the process.
