Olney returns to the haunting 'Angel Street,' the play that inspired 'Gaslight'
The last time "Angel Street" was produced at Olney Theatre Center, it was 1950. Olney was 12 years old, and the film "Gaslight," which was inspired by the play and starred Ingrid Bergman, had recently been released. The play popularized the word "gaslighting" as a term of psychological abuse, wherein the abuser messed with the mind of a victim by presenting fiction as fact, making the victim question his own sanity, …