There are a number of plays being staged in the fall and winter, so if you want to have some fun, meet a lot of great people and  be a star, your chance is coming up.

 

Playgoers of Lethbridge  winds up their 100 anniversary celebrations with a pair of great shows in October and  November.

 

The long standing theatre troupe is staging a dinner theatre of  Ken Ludwig’s 2012 comedy “ The Games Afoot below the Keg, Oct. 17-21 .

 Auditions are this Thursday, June 22 in the casa community room.

 

 Hatrix Theatre staged the production in 2016, but director Rita Peterson in 2016 but didn’t see it.

 

“I really love Ken Ludwig.  He has several plays, like  ‘Leading Ladies’ and ‘Moon Over Buffalo’ and a lot of others that are very funny,” Peterson said, adding Playgoer’s mainstay Shelly David, who produced Hatrix’s  production of the play, brought The Game’s Afoot to her attention. It‘s been about 10 years since they did it,” Peterson said.

 

“It’s a period piece. it takes place in 1936, and I don’t usually like to go back that far, but it’s such a cute play,” Peterson enthused.

 

The Game’s Afoot is about theatre veteran  and playwright William Gillette, who has written a long running play about Sherlock Holmes, and who sees himself as being like Holmes,  who  invites his friends in the cast to his mansion for Christmas Eve in 1936 in the middle of a storm as a poison pen theatre critic named Daria Chase pays them a visit, which leads to complications and hilarity as they hold a seance to find out who attempted to murder Gillette as well as the doorman at the theatre where they were performing.

The cast includes three men and five women aged 20 to 70 plus.

Peterson said there are a lot of interesting characters in the play including the Sherlock Holmes wannabe Gillette, his doting mother  Martha, his perennial sidekick Felix and his wife Madge plus young up and comer Simon and his wife Aggie. Plus  an elderly female inspector and  gossip columnist Daria Chase.

 

 Auditions are Thursday, June 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the casa community room and possibly next week for those who can’t make it.

“ I’d like to cast it by the end of June and have a read through in August,” Peterson said, adding there has already been interest  in  the play for actors  living in Taber and Fort Macleod.

 No preparation is needed for the audition.

 

“ I like people to read from the script,” Peterson said.

 

 Actors are expected t0 commit to rehearsals three times a week, with more closer to the date of the show.

Contact Rita at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information about the Game’s afoot.

 

Playgoers of Lethbridge is also holding auditions, June 27 for a pantomime, set to run Nov. 6-12.

 

 A variety of actors who can sing and dance and improvise are needed for that show. Auditions are  Tuesday, June 27 from 6-8 :30 in the casa meeting room.  Actors will be asked to perform excerpts from the script. Contact Elaine at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information about the pantomime.

— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat editor