Night Watch (1972 Len Cariou / Joan Hackett)

Lucille Fletcher’s gripping psychological mystery thriller 'Night Watch' completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere at the Morosco Theatre in 1972, running for an astonishing 121 performances. The claustrophobic, clock-stopping narrative unfolds inside an elegant Manhattan townhouse study over a sweltering, stormy night, tracking Elaine Wheeler, a wealthy, insomniac housewife who claims to see a dead body through her window inside an abandoned building next door, collapsing into an existential crisis when her husband and her psychiatrist brand her insane, unpeeling a web of deceptions. Directed by Fred Coe, it starred Joan Hackett and Len Cariou.