Real Inspector Hound swings into final rehearsal days
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The Society has made one or two previous sorties into the world of the 'Whodunnit' (remember Wait Until Dark', "Johnny Belindas" and "Ten Little Indians"?) and has always found them to be extremely popular with the audiences.
This latest offering written in the mid-sixties by popular English dramatist Tom Stoppard should be no exception as it has a full measure of all the usual ingredients that make up a good thriller. But it has much more too.
There are one or two fresh aspects both in the play itself and in the production that should give the evening a spicy freshness, rather like putting one of those tangy after-shave lotions onto an early morning chin.
Firstly, the most important difference is that this will be the first Dinner Theatre to be staged in Cayman and if the concept is a success it will hopefully be the forerunner of many more such evenings. The play itself is only 90 minutes in duration, but it will be preceded by a full-course dinner (served at 7.30 p.m.) and will be performed amongst the after-dinner tables at Royal Palms' 'Le Jardin' Lounge.
Will audiences sitting comfortably replete enjoying a cigar and a liquor, be more receptive to an enigmatic 'Whodunit' than the Society's previous audiences who have been forced to endure the austerities of a torrid Town Hall? It will at least make a change not to have the stage flooded with perspiration! Secondly, the content of the play has one or two surprises over and above the surprise content of the usual thriller.
True there are murders galore, there is a wheelchair ridden Lord of the Manor, there is scheming and intrigue, there is suspense and melodrama, there is romance. And there are the usual twists and turns in a cleverly-woven plot.
But in addition to all this there is audience participation. Lastly, the cast itself has a freshness, with more than a few new faces appearing on the Cayman Stage (and one or two on any stage) for the first time.
