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Onstage at Theatre Three: Whodunnit

(Dallas, Texas) Theatre Three’s 2007 – 2008 season continues with the comedy thriller, Whodunnit by Anthony Shaffer. Theatre Three’s forty-seventh season features plays and musicals celebrating the making of movies, plays that became famous movies, and plays that re-examine fascinating screen ideas with the techniques of live performance -- a cavalcade of entertaining mysteries, comedies, dramas, and musicals – and all in 3-D on Theatre Three’s famous theatre-in-the-round stage. Whodunnit begins previews on Thursday, April 3, 2008 and will close on Sunday, May 4, 2008. “Father Brown the priest detective of G.K. Chesterton asks, ‘Where does a wise man hide a pebble? On a beach. And where does a wise man hide a leaf? In a forest. And what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in – (a fearful sin).’ That was a clue, one of many I intend to give you tonight, and you will need all of them. Because what you have stumbled into tonight is nothing more or less than an old-fashioned closed circle, telephone wires have been cut, flood-waters have washed away the bridge, ‘My God you mean it has to be one of us’ English country house whodunnit. But it has a difference. In order to save you from the miserable banality of the last scene where the murderous clergyman, or whoever it turns out to be, backs weapon in hand towards the French windows, snarling ‘I warn you, stay where you are, all of you, you’ll never put me behind bars,’ I have decided to tell you who the murderer is at the outset – thus saving you an evening’s whispered speculation with your neighbor and the inevitable letdown when you find you’ve guessed wrong. I am the murderer, I done it, or rather will have done it before the evening is much older.”– Someone in Whodunnit. This Broadway success by the author of Sleuth takes audiences to Agatha Christie's England, where six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer's mansion during a thunderstorm. The guests include an aged rear admiral, a snooty aristocrat, a doddering old archeologist, a dashing young cad and a blackmailer. Whodunnit? Whodunnit was first presented on December 30, 1982 by Douglas Urbanski, Robert A Buckley, and E. Gregg Wallace Jr., at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City, directed by Michael Kahn.

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