

In the end, it was Alexis who killed her father and then, strangely, in an unexpected twist, murdered her brother and the family attorney with her poison of choice, digitoxicon. “I think I’ll guess it,” she laughed, adding, “I have high hopes.” Her 17-year-old daughter, Katrina, felt confident before the show opened that she could identify the murderer. “We wanted to explore and do something different,” she said. Raysa Gomez, also from Hayesville, brought her husband and two daughters to see the show. “We’ve been to productions here before,” Curtis said, “We’ve even brought our students.” Retired school teachers and sisters Connie Curtis and Sherri Golden drove in from Hayesville to enjoy it. The production brought welcome entertainment to a wearied community hungry for in-person social interaction. To see the litter's pedigree, click here. The comedy entertained the audience with some madcap action, which included carrying the dead body through the audience before arriving backstage. Scout (NATCH CH Madcap's Way To My Heart UD RA JH MX MXJ OF WC) was bred to Tyler (Am/Can CH Castlehill's Magic Moment Am/Can CD TDI) and we had 5 boys and 4 girls born on March 30, 2008. Volunteers served the audience a tasty three-course dinner, catered by Mariolino’s in Andrews, during In their shared scenes, Williams and the equally talented Eller created theatre magic.
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In a production full of witty banter, he showed skilled comedic timing, while his energy lifted the occasional lag in dialogue. Williams spoke with comfortable authority, never overplaying his wildly dramatic role. Tony Bullfinger, the self-appointed coroner, exhibited exciting talent. Philip Dekle gave a meritorious performance as Major, Major, Major, showing particular skill in swagger and confidence. Hand wrote in two characters who served as investigators in the dizzying production. This left only the lively Jeannie Dell (Melissa Haskill), the chef of the restaurant that served as the setting for the entire play, and her love interest, the eager Bernie Jones (Cory Cheek, also the capable director), who was written off by the Ward siblings as a ridiculous cousin.

Her motives were dodgy at best when it was revealed she had already embezzled money from her lover, Artimus Ward. Lillie Morris played the mild-mannered family attorney, Eileen Morrow. His sister, Alexis Ward-Regent-Middlefield-Abernathy-Gillicuddy-Boskowicz, played by veteran actress Leah Wood, seemed a more likely murderer when she explained to the audience that all of her husbands died because, “I’m no good at cooking.” Reginald Ward, Artimus’ son (played expertly by Ashley Eller), commanded the stage with hysterical quips that masked a tightly controlled mania. Ward’s aristocratic children were considered prime suspects because the family fortune gave them 5.2 million reasons to murder their father. The rest of the production saw the players attempt to solve the murder, sometimes even involving the audience. By the time the lighting was restored, Ward was doubly dead – once from the poison digitoxicon, and once again from a knife wound in his back. Andrews – There were games afoot at the Valleytown Cultural Arts Center last weekend, when the Act 2 players performed Bill Hand’s whack a doodle play Dinner on the Menu.Īrtemis Ward opened the show drinking a glass of wine when the lights went out.
