'Psycho' shows every facet of a frightening character
Patrick Bateman, dressed to kill. Musical / “American Psycho: The Musical”. Music and Lyrics by Duncan Sheik. Directed by Alexander Berlage, The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, to 3 July. Reviewed by LEN POWER. IF you can make a musical out of “American Psycho”, you can make a musical out of anything. Based on the best-selling and controversial 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it focuses on a young, handsome and wealthy investment banker, Patrick Bateman, in New York City during the Wall Street boom of the 1980s. This man also happens to be a serial killer. While the book gave sh...