DESIGN For MURDER by George Batson — Director Emily Hoppe

Everyone’s a suspect in this mystery with romance, comedy, a dark and stormy night and the all important murder. There’s the stately mansion, a dead body, a seductive and saucy maid with a secret, a family trying to hold onto its wealth while dealing with skeletons in the closet, a sleazy low-class blackmailer, a motley cast of other characters with dubious pasts and a detective with the obligatory trench coat. So what’s missing? The butler who didn’t do it, because there is no butler! In fact, this mystery leaves audiences wondering “whodunit” until the very end. “A swell chiller. A couple of juicy killings and the identify of the culprit well concealed.” – New York Mirror “A fast moving, highly tensed whodunit.” – London Stage