The Alley Resident Acting Company throws itself into the broad humor, executing with the precision of a Swiss watch. Murder victims become cloth dummies, who are lugged and thrown about like they were in “Weekend at Bernie’s.” At the dinner table one character asks the thick-headed Colonel Mustard (David Rainey) if he likes Kipling. Its ancestors include screwball comedy and vaudeville, Abbott and Costello and the Marx Brothers. HUAC was, of course, a farce, which, in turn, makes it the perfect backdrop for another farce.Ī churning mechanism of puns, pratfalls and what we now like to call dad jokes, this “Clue” never lets up it’s a speedy 90 minutes without intermission, which, for the energized actors, must seem like an endurance test. It’s the height of the ‘50s Communist witch hunt, as a bulky television tells us when the curtain rises, and the House Un-American Activities Committee is out for blood. You might not know it from the inspired silliness and kinetic energy, but the premise of “Clue” is actually rooted in seriousness: the six guests invited to a mysterious mansion are being blackmailed for their alleged lack of patriotism. Now it’s a play, written by Sandy Rustin and currently in production at Alley Theatre. Madcap contributor movie#From there it has enjoyed a healthy run in the U.S., where it was adapted into a cult movie comedy in 1985. It’s been a long, strange trip for “Clue,” the murder mystery board game that saw its first action in the UK in 1949. Green, and Melissa Pritchett as Yvette in Alley Theatre’s Summer Chills production of 'Clue' Photo: Lynn Lane Peacock, Todd Waite as Professor Plum, Christopher Salazar as Mr. Dylan Godwin as Wadsworth, David Rainey as Colonel Mustard, Michelle Elaine as Miss Scarlet, Elizabeth Bunch as Mrs.
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