Deathtrap
by Ira Levin

Directed by Molly Watkins

Ira Levin’s murder comedy is about a once-highly successful mystery drama writer, Sidney Bruhl, who announces at the very outset of the play that he would indeed commit murder to get another hit on Broadway. He currently bolsters his income by teaching a writing course at a local university. One of his students has come up with a play script that even he considers failure proof. Bruhl cagily observes, “Even a great director couldn’t ruin it.” And so the student is invited to come to his home for a “story conference.” Or will it be something else? An execution perhaps?

There follows a complicated game of murderous, musical chairs. Bodies are buried in the garden; someone gets an arrow from a medieval crossbow into the heart; a psychic woman brings warnings of disaster but seems to get her spectral information mixed up. At the end of the evening a good percentage of the cast has been obliterated by fiendish means, keeping audiences on the edge of their seats all of the time.

Director ........................................................... Molly Watkins

Cast
Sidney Bruhl ................................................... Paul Ruff
Myra Bruhl ..................................................... Madeline Golden
Clifford Anderson .......................................... Lyle Tate
Helga ten Dorp ............................................... MJ Etua
Porter Milgrim ................................................ Edwin Ellis

Crew
Director ....................................................... Molly Watkins
Assistant Director ........................................ Paula Mabry
Stage Manager ............................................. Andrew Watkins
Set Design ................................................... Molly Watkins
Set Decoration ............................................. Pattye Archer
Props ........................................................... Ty Phillips and Carole Ramsey
Costumes ..................................................... Jody Denney
Lights ........................................................... Thomas La Foe
Sound Technician ......................................... Mike Goettig
Scenic Backdrop ........................................... Chris Greer        
Fight Consultant ............................................ Marcus Vowell
Set Construction ............................................ Molly Watkins, Pattye Archer, Andrew Watkins, Paula Mabry, Paull Ruff, MJ Etua, Lyle Tate, Lora DeFore, Thomas La Foe, Mike Goettig, Bob Anderson, Edwin Ellis, Madeline Golden, Levon Terry, Albert Hunt, Debbie Dunaway, Erin Gerard, Ben Webster, Janna Hamaker, Shielda Beck, Jasmine Frazier, Stephen Thames, Brell Davis, LeAndre' Macon, Drew Nash, Barbara Smith, Kayla Hill, Latasha Hill, Melinda Gwin, Taylor Gair, Nathan Herring, Allison Stamps, Ty Phillips, Meghan Dunaway & Albert Oppenheimer

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Stephen Cunetto • Marsha Williams • Bruce Sabatino • Mississippi State University
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