The Butler Did It by Tim Kelly - April 3rd and 4th 7:00PM
The Butler Did It by Tim Kelly
Director: Karen Lasater
Performance Dates:
June 2nd - June 18th, 2022
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
This comedy parodies every English mystery play ever written but with a decidedly American flair. Miss Maple, a dowager with a reputation for “clever” weekend parties, invites a group of detective writers to Ravenswood Manor on Turkey Island, where they are to impersonate their fictional characters. She has arranged several amusing incidents which are all fun and games until there is a real murder. She then offers a reward to the “detective” who can bring the killer to justice. This zany assortment of would-be sleuths trip over clues and each other on the way to unmasking the killer.
CHARACTERS
HAVHAVERSHAM - a young housemaid, an ex-convict.
RITA - a social secretary. middle aged.
MISS MAPLE - a well-known society hostess. older dowager.
FATHER WHITE - a psychological mystery writer.
CHANDLER MARLOWE - a brutish, male chauvinist type mystery writer, voice like raw hamburger, talks out of the side of the mouth, square jaw.
LOUIE FAN - "asian" mystery writer, bad accent.
RICK - NY writing couple, debonair.
LAURA - Ny writing couple, sophisticated.
PETER FLIMSEY - pretend British writer Sherlock Holmes character, intellectual, handsome.
CHARITY - James Bond kind of detective writer, young, attractive, fit.
MABEL DUPRE - an adventuress.
PHARAOH LINK - a San Francisco police detective.
PHARAOH LINK - a San Francisco police detective.