Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:00PM
Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:00PM
Friday, October 16, 2009 7:00PM
Saturday, October 17, 2009 7:00PM
Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:00PM
Monday, October 19, 2009 7:00PM Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:00PM
Saturday October 24, 2009 7:00PM
Director: Brian Sheehan
Assistant Director: Chris Knabenshue
The Cast:
Mr. Rogers Trevor Chandler Mrs. Rogers Rebecca Gustavson/Maria Santacruz (Double Cast) Fred Narracott Mark Sasaki Vera Claythorne Jaclyn Koshofer/Chelsea DiBlasi (Double Cast) Philip Lombard Michael Metoyer Anthony Marston Salvatore Lannutti William Blore Ryan Rocha General Mackenzie Martin Lopez Emily Brent Elizabeth Lund Sir Lawrence Wargrave Kyle Lynch Dr. Armstrong Kaila Jordan
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Thomas Rogers - The dignified butler. Rogers continues to be a proper servant even after his wife is found dead and the bodies begin piling up. The recording accuses Rogers and his wife of letting their former employer die because they stood to inherit money from her.
Ethel Rogers - Rogers's wife. Ethel is a frail woman, and the death of Tony Marston makes her faint. Wargrave believes her husband dominates her and that he masterminded their crime.
Fred Naracott- Opens the play as he transports theguests to the island.Caretaker of property,knows the area.
Vera Claythorne - A former governess who comes to Indian Island purportedly to serve as a secretary to Mrs. Owen. Vera wants to escape a past in which she killed a small boy in her care, Cyril Hamilton, so that the man she loved would inherit Cyril's estate. Although the coroner cleared her of blame, Vera's lover abandoned her. Vera is one of the most intelligent and capable characters in the novel, but she also suffers from attacks of hysteria, feels guilty about her crime, and reacts nervously to the uncanny events on the island. The "Ten Little Indians" poem has a powerful effect on her.
Philip Lombard - A mysterious, confident, and resourceful man who seems to have been a mercenary soldier in Africa. Lombard is far bolder and more cunning than most of the other characters, traits that allow him to survive almost until the end of the novel. His weakness is his chivalrous attitude toward women, particularly Vera, with whom he has a number of private conversations. He cannot think of her as a potential killer, and he underestimates her resourcefulness, which proves a fatal mistake.
Anthony Marston - A rich, athletic, handsome youth. Tony Marston likes to drive recklessly and seems to lack a conscience. He killed two small children in a car accident caused by his speeding, but shows no remorse.
William Henry Blore - A former police inspector. Blore is a well-built man whose experience often inspires others to look to him for advice. As a policeman, he was corrupt and framed a man named Landor at the behest of a criminal gang. On the island, he acts boldly and frequently takes initiative, but he also makes frequent blunders. He constantly suspects the wrong person, and his boldness often verges on foolhardiness.
General John Gordon MacKenzie The oldest guest. Macarthur is accused of sending a lieutenant, Arthur Richmond, to his death during World War I because Richmond was his wife's lover. Once the first murders take place, Macarthur, already guilt-ridden about his crime, become resigned to his death and sits by the sea waiting for it to come to him.
Emily Brent - An old, ruthlessly religious woman who reads her Bible every day. The recording accuses Emily Brent of killing Beatrice Taylor, a servant whom she fired upon learning that Beatrice was pregnant out of wedlock. Beatrice subsequently killed herself. Unlike the other characters, Emily Brent feels convinced of her own righteousness and does not express the slightest remorse for her actions.
Judge Lawrence Wargrave - A recently retired judge. Wargrave is a highly intelligent old man with a commanding personality. As the characters begin to realize that a murderer is hunting them, Wargrave's experience and air of authority make him a natural leader for the group. He lays out evidence, organizes searches, and ensures that weapons are locked away safely. Wargrave's guilt is revealed at the end of the novel in a confession that illuminates the characteristics that drive him to commit the series of murders: a strong sense of justice combined with a sadistic delight in murdering
Dr. Edward George Armstrong - A gullible, slightly timid doctor. Armstrong often draws the suspicion of the other guests because of his medical knowledge. He is a recovering alcoholic who once accidentally killed a patient by operating on her while drunk. Armstrong, while professionally successful, has a weak personality, making him the perfect tool for the murderer. He has spent his whole life pursuing respectability and public success, and is unable to see beneath people's exteriors.
When the play opens, a cluster of statuettes-ten little Indians-sits on the mantelpiece of a weird country house on an island off the coast of Devon. A nursery rhyme embossed above them tells how each little Indian meets his death, until there was none.
To this odd Byzantine mortuary eight assorted guests are invited for a weekend by a mysterious host. The guests have never met one another before, nor have they met their host. Nor has the housekeeper, the butler, or the boatman ever met their employer.
While the guests are assembled for cocktails prior to going out to dinner, a voice comes out of the air, accusing everyone present-including the two household servants, each in his turn of murder-not the sort of murder on which a conviction cab be got in the courts but a murder just the same. And while they are exchanging data on themselves an on their host (who has sent word that he will be home the next day) one of the ten little Indians breaks-and immediately thereafter-the giddy Oxonian chokes to death of cyanide that someone has dropped into his drink. One down and nine to go.
Then the excitement begins and never let's down until the final curtain. The nerve specialist, accused of murder by operating drunk, is pushed off a cliff; the judge, who sentenced an innocent man to die, is found limp in a chair with a gunshot wound in his head; the spinster who a drove a servant girl to suicide, is dispatched with a hypodermic; the detective, who caused an innocent man to die is crushed; the general, who sent his wife's lover on a fatal mission, is stabbed, and so on, in a phantasmorgia of gruesome (and very comical) details, involving clues, explanations, suspicions, and terror!
