Tag Archives: Xenia Area Community Theatre

BLACK COFFEE
Xenia Area Community Theatre
May 27-June 5
Xenia

Directed by Tony Copper

Cast: Deb Zweber as Miss Tredwell, Sara Duibley as Lucia Amory, Cheryl Dern as Miss Caroline Amory, Brian Louis as Richard Amory, Kylee Pauley as Barbara Amory, Russ Dern as Edward Raynor, Patrick Taylor as Dr. Carelli, Harry Wayne Shepard as Sir Claude Amory, Joe DeTore as Hercule Poirot, Wayne Wolfe as Captain Arthur Hastings, Edith Waugh as Dr. Graham, John T. Weeks as Inspector Jimmy Japp & Tobey McKee as Constable Johnson

This little known mystery will surprise and delight Christie fans. Written in 1934, the story concerns a physicist named Sir Claude Amory who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb. In the first act, Sir Claude is poisoned (in his coffee, naturally) and Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the case. He does so after many wonderful twists and turns in true Christie fashion.

• Fri, May 27 at 6:30pm (Opening night gala)
• Sat, May 28 at 7:30pm
• Fri-Sat, June 3-4 at 7:30pm
• Sun, June 5 at 3pm

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MURDERED TO DEATH
Xenia Area Community Theatre
April 8-17
Xenia

Cast: Penelope Winter as Mildred, Kylee Pauley as Dorothy, Harry Wayne Shepard as Bunting, Tony Williams as Colonel Charles Craddock, Tamar Fishbein as Margaret Craddock, Jacinda Bridger as Elizabeth Hartley-Trumpington, Dimitri Markov as Pierre Marceau, Edith Waugh as Joan Maple, Christian Yates as Constable Thompkins & Tony Copper as Inspector Pratt

This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930’s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight – Bunting, the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling local inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes – they’re all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house’s owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will readers and audiences die laughing first?

• Fri, April 8 at 6:30pm (Opening night gala)
• Sat, April 9 at 7:30pm
• Fri-Sat, April 15-16 at 7:30pm
• Sun, April 17 at 3pm

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BULL IN A CHINA SHOP
Xenia Area Community Theatre
Jan. 29-Feb. 6
Xenia

Directed by Sara Duibley

Cast: Nathan Hudson as Dennis O’Finn, Connie Strait as Miss Hildegarde, Edith Waugh as Miss Birdie, Debra Zweber as Miss Amantha, Kim Rodgers as Miss Lucy, Penelope Winter as Miss Nettie, Sheila Woosley as Miss Elizabeth, Russ Dern as Kramer, Jim Buckner as Stretcher Bearer, Sara Duibley as Jane Rogers & Harry Wayne Shepard as Johnson

When six spinsters tire of watching the handsome homicide detective next door through their binoculars, they hatch a plot to get him to pay them an official visit. It involves just a bit arsenic. Uproariously funny situations follow involving swooning, tea, giggling, and so forth.

• Fri, Jan. 29 at 6:30pm (Gala)
• Sat, Jan. 30 at 7:30pm
• Sun, Jan. 31 at 3pm
• Fri-Sat, Feb. 5-6 at 7:30pm

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