Review: "Gaslight" is more Ibsen than Agatha Christie

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The combination of the title “Gaslight,” the demands of the season and the demographics of the loyal audience at Northlight Theatre probably suggests to most people a wheezing holiday whodunnit in Skokie, something like Agatha Christie or a show in the theatrical vein of “Only Murders in the Building.”

But “Gaslight” really is not that at all, especially as directed by Jessica Thebus.

The play, originally known as “Gas Light,” was penned by Patrick Hamilton, who also wrote the play “Rope,” which was notably turned into an Alfred Hitchcock movie. After morphing into “Gaslight,” the 1938 work became a movie, a much lauded film directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman. It certainly qualifies as a thriller, replete with a dodgy police