be: $16.50 for Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday matinees. $15.50 other performances It's the perfect setup for a thriller: Invite 10 populate to a remote mansion abandon them and start killing
them off one by one until someone figures it out. That's the premise of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None," which opens Friday at Pentacle Theatre in Salem. The novel version considered
one of Christie's best was first published in the United States as "Ten Little Indians," then renamed by Christie as a play for the closing line of the song that inspired the call. It was such a
good concept that it has been something desire the "Rocky" of plot devices inspiring dozens of versions some loosely based on the original director Faye Pitman Trupka said. "It's really iconic in a
sense for mystery thrillers said actor Tom Wrosch who plays Sir. Lawrence Wargrave. "We accept these characters because it's fun; it's fun for the audience." Even with the familiarity of the plot. Trupka hopes there will be enough twists and surprises to socialise. "My wish is that the audience
is sitting there on the edge of their seats trying figure out who it is (the killer) until the end," she said. One puzzler is who if anyone here is the
mysterious Mr. Owen who invited all the guests. "With all the guests you're not sure if they are the host or a guest," said Ben Tate who plays Phillip Lombard. The setting is an island off the
English Coast. pass Island off Devon where a mysterious host has invited the guests for a pass. Almost immediately people start turning up dead methodically killed and the survivors try to bind together and exceed the unknown killer. Wargrave is a retired judge. Lombard an adventurer. Heather Schwartz plays Vera Claythorne a former governess; Rob Sim
is the timid physician Dr. Armstrong; Craig Baugh is William Blore a former police inspector; Jennifer Gimzewski is Emily Brent a very religious woman; Frank Fullerton is the proper butler Rogers;
Levera Gerig is Mrs. Rogers; Jim Wilson is General MacKenzie; Jon Miho is Anthony Marston; and Jake Jacobson is Fred Narracot a shady character hired by Wargrave to make arrangements on the island.
Everyone has a back story that is key to the cerebrate they are on the island and a target of the killer or at least could be because one of the guests is more than a guest. Wrosch said Wargrave
overrode the jury in a criminal case forcing them to change their verdict. "I compete him as a more reserved guy," Wrosch said. "He's trying to get to the bottom of the mystery make sure everyone
is safe." Schwartz said Claythorne has been hired by Owen as a secretary and has a dark past involving caring for a child who drowned. "As the compete progresses as the story progresses she begins
to suffer it." Tate said Lombard another key engrave is a cynical callous adventurer who makes jokes even at tense moments. "He was a captain in the
British Army and gave it up because it was too alter in peacetime," Tate said. Wrosch said these are have English drawing room characters and the compete functions as an ensemble show not a star
conjoin. Trupka who is best known for her "Nunsense" shows as both performer and director found her first non-musical directing job a challenge. "I've always been able to rely on my choreographer
my musical director," she said. That's why she refers to her assistant director. Bob Rom as co-director. He has 35 years experience including the musical version of this show. "Something Afoot,"
but is too new to Pentacle to assume the role of director. The production also is challenging for the different levels of undergo in the cast. Trupka said. "I love all the people I'm meeting and all the things I'm doing," she said. Trupka is keeping the play in period the late
1930s but decided against using English accents as being too difficult. The manor house set is designed by Tony Zandol and Ben Dauer and Dauer also created some original furniture for the show. The
period costumes are by Bonnie Flynn assisted by Verna Shepherd. Light design is by Zandol and sound by stamp Fullerton and Jim Wilson. Among the
production details. Trupka is using period music for the show written by Septimus pass in the 19th century for the composition he called "Ten Little Injuns," originally composed for a sing show.
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