By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY
Staff Writer
After successful suspense theater shows last month at the Tudor House with Sorry, Wrong Number and Cabin 13, Heisler Theater has decided to repeat the idea with this month with the shows The ABC Murders and The Hitchhiker, both of which are legendary thrillers. They will be fully staged and performed live at the historic Tudor House later this month on April 25 and 26 with a matinee on April 27. Director Jeff Heisler challenges you to “Feel the fear and experience the suspense.”
The cast has just been announced: Gaye Gamble-Heisler will be “Miss Lilly”; Alan McNeil is “A.B.C.”; Brian Follis is “Ronald Adams”; Shari Spencer is “Mrs. Adams”; Sam Star is “the Paper Boy”; Michael Faris is “The Hitchhiker” and Jeff Heisler is “Franklin Clark”. Alex May will design lights for the show.
The story behind The Hitchhiker is from Lucille Fletcher’s suspenseful radio play of the same name. In the story, Ronald Adams is simply driving from Brooklyn to California. Along the way, he believes he keeps encountering the same hitchhiker seeking a ride at numerous bridges and intersections across the country. This leads Ronald to a growing sense of unease, and he overthinks the situation, creating within himself an unsettling thought that possibly the hitchhiker, since it appears to Ronald that he is following him, may be a supernatural creature or maybe a harbinger of death. The suspense in the story continues as he travels along the roadways of America and encounters the hitchhiker again and again. The way Heisler Theater Company uses video projection creates a real sense of movement and multiple locations, raising the sense of suspense in this story.
In The ABC Murders, a renowned Belgian detective, Poirot, receives a letter signed “A.B.C.” predicting a murder in Andover. Apparently, there is a new serial killer known only as A.B.C. and as the body count rises, the only clue is that placed beside each murder victim is a copy of The ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. The ABC Murders was originally written as a detective-fiction mystery story by British writer Agatha Christie back in 1936. With suspenseful storytelling by a classic murder-mystery writer, The ABC Murders should keep audiences on the edge of their seats as the mystery and solution unravels.
Tickets for the shows are available now at www.HeislerTheater.com. The Tudor House is located at 800 N. Arrowhead Villas Road in Arrowhead Villas, off of highway 18, in Lake Arrowhead. On April 25 and 26, dinner is at 5:30 p.m., the show at 7 p.m. The Sunday matinee on April 27 starts at 2 p.m. Order tickets now, before they are sold out, at www.heislertheater.com.
For more information, visit tudorhouseentertainment.com.
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