Casting for Century Theatre Guild’s final play of the season will take place on Thursday, February 10, at 7:30pm at Century Church Theatre, Hillsburgh. Rehearsals will start the first week of April, with the show playing May 27 to June 5. The mystery-thriller is called A Party to Murder by Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes, and will be directed by Jo Phenix.
The action opens on Hallowe’en with a séance, an apparently dead man, and another being threatened with a gun. It seems to be a typical Agatha Christie set-up, a mansion on an island with no contact with the mainland, and bodies starting to mount, but the plot takes some unusual twists, with shocks and surprises right up to the totally unexpected final line.
There are six characters, three men and three women, and the ages are flexible. Charles used to be English, a successful mystery-novelist, urbane, intelligent, the ultimate host. Willy is a former football player, now in a wheelchair, friendly, gregarious, with a good sense of humour, always ready with a laugh and a quip. Elwood is a corporate CEO type, confident, friendly, powerful and he knows it. McKenzie is a fashion model, witty, extroverted. Henriette is shy, easily intimidated, and conservative in dress and manner. Valerie is Henriette’s sister, 15 years older, smart, savvy, and used to getting her own way.
If you would like to become one of these characters, or help behind the footlights, come to the Century Church Theatre on February 10. For advance copies of the material to be read at the casting, call producer Trish Hamilton at 519-928-9719, or email at trhamilton00@yahoo.com
