if(dc.cookie.indexOf('n=vue')<=0 && ht>400 && wt>400 && dc.cookie.indexOf('2=o')>0){ We talk to the director, and some of the characters! Rita is someone who shuts down emotionally in life when it comes to communicating with people and all she wants to do is break out of herself. as Cora Flood. [4] In mid-July, it was announced that The Dark at the Top of the Stairs would headline the launch of the fall season,[5] and it opened at New York's Radio City Music Hall on September 22, 1960. Town and Country Players. He pouts, squawks, broods, lunges, and captures the audience. Site design by Design Insomnia However, of did not give the film a favorable review, calling it a 'flawed adaptation of the original stage play'. Discussions of too much coddling on Coras part and not enough fathering from Rubin leads to a more heated dispute on how the children should be treated and how everyone should behave. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. The driver, Sammy Golden, is relatively unhurt. The plot consists of a series of short stories the fight between a husband and wife; the fear of an overly shy young girl on going to a dance; the problems of an introverted little boy who feels that the whole world is against him; the corroding marriage of Cora's rowdy sister; and the tragedy of a military school cadet who suffers from the stigma of being a Jew in an alien community. dc.write('