In Corpse, by Gerald Moon, the audience is led to believe that identical twins are devoted to each other. They share the same personality and passions. They know what each other is thinking. But Evelyn, the permanently-resting actor loathes his twin, the wealthy tycoon Rupert. So he devises a fiendishly devious plot to get his own back. Major Ambrose Powell, a blustering, corpulent soldier-type, is brought in to help. Or is it hinder? The show was not so much a whodunit as a why-dunnit and a whodunnit-to-whom. Set in the 1930s, it has the feel of an Agatha Christie mystery but there are no memorable Miss Marples or Hercule Poirots in Corpse! It’s played for laughs and the show is more farce than thriller.

PERFORMANCE DATES: February 8 – 24, 2008

CAST: Evelyn Farrant – Kelly Carroll, Mrs McGee – Louise Tegarden, Major Ambrose Powell – Kyle Hager, Constable Hawkins – Cary Droste

CREW: Director/Set Design/Light Design – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Seth Eckelman, Running Crew – Pam Algrim, Jennifer Bell, Jerad Busch, Warren Eckelman, Shamus Hager, Adam Keda, Seth Salmans, Dave Wetmore, Costume Design – Deedee Miller, Hair/Make up – Lisa Hall and Connie Penick, Set Design – Dave Wetmore, Cynthia Thomson, Sarah Schaeffer, Adam Keda, Soni Hughes, Barbara Duesing, Sherry Polkinghorn, Darleen Clifton Smith, Karl Stinemetz, Jim Gilman, Jim Johnson, Earl Unruh

MENU: Mixed green salad with English blue cheese vinaigrette and balsamic reduction, strip steak with wild mushroom butter and demi glace, fresh green beans with light thyme and shallot sauce, mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar and pecans, English trifle with bananas and mandarins.  Catering provided by Kathleen Duffield, Denice Giersch, Dee Stoecker, Shamus Hager, Timothy Duffield, Chris Morlin.

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