90TH season

 

THE MALTESE BODKIN

by David Belke

 

directed by DAVID PATTON

 

PERFORMANCE DATES

 

FRI, April 23 at 8:00PM
SAT, Apr 24 at 8:00PM • SUN, Apr 25 at 2:00PM
     
THU, Apr 29 at 7:30PM • FRI, Apr 30 at 8:00PM
SAT, May 1 at 8:00PM • SUN, May 2 at 2:00PM
     
THU, May 6 at 7:30PM • FRI, May 7 at 8:00PM
SAT, May 8 at 8:00PM

 

Danger, daggers and dames. A comedy mystery with a Shakespearean twist. Times were tough for hard boiled detective Birnam Wood. He never asked to be in London. Especially in 1605. When his partner is murdered, Wood has to find the killer amidst a vast cast of suspects that includes (among others) Viola, Richard III, Falstaff, Iago, Mercutio and a merchant from Venice. But the real solution to the mystery seems to be in discovering the secret behind a mysterious dagger known as the Maltese Bodkin. The worlds of detective fiction and Shakespeare collide in this “who hath done it.”

(Rated PG)

 

 

 

 

Auditions for

THE MALTESE BODKIN

will be held

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2009, 6:00pm


The audition will consist of cold readings from the script.

 

CASTING


4 MEN and 2 WOMEN
double casting of roles below

 

Birnam Wood | a private investigator

 

Charlotte | Wood’s receptionist and secretary

 

Antonio | a merchant of Venice

 

Viola da Messaline | a mysterious client

 

Iago | a sword for hire and villain

 

Mistress Nell Quickly | proprietress of the Boar’s Head Tavern

 

Sir John Falstaff | rogue, wit and information source

 

Mercutio of Verona | a man on a quest

 

Sir Richard Ratcliffe | a thug

 

Sir William Catesby | a dangerous thug

 

Puck | a fairy trickster

 

Donalbain | former prince of Scotland

 

Sergeant Fang | a constable

 

Prospero | Duke of Milan and sorcerer

 

Richard, Duke of Gloucester | an evil mastermind

 

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Danes in danger

 

Sebastian | a missing person