A Thrilling Comedy
It has been a long, busy season and TWN captures the mood for murder in its long anticipated show that will have you on the edge of your seat in laughter. It’s the perfect way to cap off a September evening that will leave you talking the next morning.
“This fun chiller-thriller promises to glue you to the edge of your seat with surprises, conspiracy, and a climax that keeps everyone guessing until the final curtain. It has been described as an emotional roller coaster ride with more twists and turns than a country road,” Director Fritz Michel.
In this story, Greg Sanderson is an archeologist of sorts. He is out in the countryside looking for “flints,” tools and weapons made by pre-metal man from the mineral commonly called flint. As Greg digs through a quarry in search of ancient flints, he finds something else that spins this story out of control.
I’ll Be Back before Midnight! is the who’s-who of murder mystery comedy, that will leave you laughing and guessing until the very end. Presented by the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, the play is performed by an all star cast featuring Greg (Kevin Molner) and Jan (Erin Rafferty), George (John Devaney) and Laura (Sarah Fraunfelder).
This is a highly technical precision show that combines all of the TWN mastery to submerge it’s audience in the moment on all three sides, the perfect venue!
Written by the Canadian playwright Peter Colley, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight! was an overnight sensation. Colley is one of the youngest playwrights ever produced at the prestigious National Arts Centre in the nation’s capital, Ottawa, with his play The Donnelly’s, and while still in his early twenties he was the resident playwright for three years at Canada’s largest regional theatre. But until Midnight he had never written a thriller before. Critics raved about the play, and within two days the entire run was sold out. Requests flooded in from other professional theatres all across the country wishing to produce the play.
It has been heralded by critics and audiences as the finest stage thriller ever produced in Canada, and before long box office records were broken across the country. It consistently out-sold more famous thrillers such as Deathtrap and Wait Until Dark. Audiences made it clear they preferred Midnight’s combination of humor, thrills, psychological complexity, and the “funniest farmer since Pa Kettle.”
Los Angeles actor-turned-director Fritz Michel is excited to return to one of the stages that helped launch his career. Michel and TWN Artistic Director Jane Kurakula go way back to 1994, when Kurakula directed Fritz, “I always thought he was brilliant and am glad he has chosen to come and direct, this show is marvelous, a pure treat for the audience.”
Nantucket’s own Eric Shultz has once again surprises and amazes with his brilliant set design and construction, and the lighting design is by Galley lightings own gem, Sandra Galley. The incredible sound design that was Michel’s and Karakula’s and Schulz’s efforts are well worth hearing. The whole ambiance is intense intrigue periodically broken with bone-chilling laughter.
Last season TWN presented The Graduate in this autumn time slot, and it played to sold-out houses, so get your tickets today for fall thriller. TWN will be running the show for four weeks on it’s main stage, in the lower level of the Methodist Church at 2 Centre Street evenings Wednesday through Sunday from now till October 6. Tickets are $25, and this show is underwritten by the Jockey Hollow Foundation. Visit www.theatreworkshop.com for information and online ticketing or call the TWN box office between 5 and 9 pm Wednesday–Sunday.
A special matinee performance on Sunday, September 23 at 3 pm is free to local seniors and island students, thanks to a grant from the Tuppancy Harris Foundation.
