Blackwood Players' Wicked Farce DEATH BY CHOCOLATE Opens 7/10

CURTAIN GOES UP 10 JULY on Blackwood Players' Deliciously Wicked Farce DEATH BY CHOCOLATE

For Tickets: 1300 658 222

Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resortare dropping like flies, including famed chef Edith Chiles. On the eve of thegrand reopening, this is not the best advertisement! It's up to John Stone,the manager, to find the cause and the murderer. Sarcastic and cynical, Stone finds himself teaming up with Ed Parlor, mystery writer and amateur sleuth, in a race against time.

The clues point to a sinister box of chocolates and the suspects include all the outlandish characters working for the resort. The list of possible suspects includes:

Lady Riverdale - owner of Lady Riverdale Chocolates Inc and the newowner of the Meadowbrook Health Resort. She is the pompous high-societytype except when occasionally required to use her otherwise concealed streetsmarts in order to survive.

Dyslexia - Lady Riverdale's assistant and long-suffering secretary, on loan to . . .
John Stone - the new manager of theMeadowbrook Health Resort. He is quick-witted and finds almost everythingabsurd...
Ralph Deadwood - the gym manager and all-round cad. Knowingall about Lady Riverdale's past, he has used that knowledge to get whateverhe can from her.
Margaret Daniels - a very attractive woman who is tryingto write a feature story on the resort for a leading gossip magazine.
Alfred Mellox - he is in charge of the janitorial staff and maintenance for the resort(a position given to him only because he was the trusted companion of thelate Henry Meadowbrook). He is very stiff, rigid and proper...
Edith Chiles -the head chef. She is a rather large, buxom sort of woman with jovial personality and matronly manners.
"Sweet Pea" Meadowbrook - daughter of the late Henry Meadowbrook and trying to eat herself to deathbecause of the trauma of losing her father. Her mouth is always full of food and no one can understand herwithout the help of Alfred Mellox.
Dick Simmering - the aerobics instructor. Always garbed in a jogging out-fit, he is a bright and hyperactive person. Anne - the resort nurse who tends to panic at the slightest injury.
Ed Parlor - guest of the Lady Riverdale's, he is a writer with a cheery disposition and enjoys the opportunityto try and solve the mysterious deaths by chocolate.
Henry Meadowbrook - Though the curmudgeonlyfounder of the Meadowbrook Health Resort, is scarcely heard or seen (since he dies in the opening momentsof the play) his baleful portrait looks down on all the bizarre and mysterious action that follows.

Our Featured Players: STEPHEN AITCHISON, Jack CurtisS, ANDREW DOWLING, LAURA HALL,NANCE HAXTON, ASHLEE LOWE, MITCHELL LOWE, TRUDI PAVLOVSKY, GARTH ROBSON, JENNIFER SINGH,ANDREW STEUART, KATHY STRAUTS.

Performances: 10th July thru 25 July 2009, Friday and Saturday evenings 8pm

At Blackwood 21, Coromandel Parade Blackwood SA 5051 PLUS (at the interval) The Ultimate Chocolate Experience sponsored with the generous support of our friends at Bracegirdle's House of Fine Chocolate and Castle Glen Australia Chocolate Liqueurs.

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