Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot
“From the intriguing opening mini play within a play to the surprise last scene a split second before final curtain, The Game’s Afoot gives you everything you love about great live theatre. Billed as a comedy thriller you will find yourself swept along for a wild and funny ride.”
Broadway star William Gillette has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it’s up to Gillette himself, who just happens to think he’s Sherlock Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears.
“The play evolves like a mystery thriller, as one tantalizing clue leads to another….In 1936, at the height of the Great Depression, people flocked to the theater for a few hours of escapism from hard times. Today, in our current recession, here is an antidote and the ideal holiday present - the gift of laughter.”
MEET THE CAST AND CREW
Wasif Sami
Director
Lana Gaige
William Gillette
Sidney Humes-James
Aggie Wheeler
Emmie Collins
Daria & Inspector Goring
Wasif Sami is a theater director. He recently graduated from Princeton, where he studied anthropology, theater, and gender & sexuality studies and directed nine productions, mostly of new plays. Wasif’s directing work as an undergrad ranged from a fantasy play exploring grief and reconciliation, to a genderqueer love story, to a lyrical adaptation of Ovid’s poetry. As an assistant director and production assistant, Wasif has worked at the McCarter Theater Center (Here There Are Blueberries national tour), Clubbed Thumb (Find Me Here), Soho Rep/NAATCO (Public Obscenities), the Kennedy Center (Sunset Boulevard), and on the musical How to Dance in Ohio. Later this summer, Wasif will intern at the Public Theater to help produce a community musical with participants from all five boroughs of New York City. In the fall, Wasif will associate direct Tartuffe at New York Theatre Workshop.
Ja’Quan Spann
Felix Geisel
Lucy Grunden
Madge Geisel
Alex Conboy
Martha Gillette
Orion Lopez-Ramirez
Simon Bright