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The Comedy’s Afoot
VLT STAGES A COZY WHODUNNIT ABOUT A MYSTERY WRITER
By Bob Keefer
W
e all love a good classic
mystery, the kind of cozy
whodunnit in which one of the
biggest challenges of life —
solving a murder — becomes,
happily, a cerebral problem of
mere deduction, in the style of
Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie.
Ken Ludwig’s 2012 The
Game’s Afoot, which runs at
Very Little Theatre through
June 22, takes that comfort-
able genre and winds it into
a fast-moving comedy with a
touch of farce.
Set at the height of the
Great Depression in 1936,
the story opens with a play
within a play, in which we’re
introduced to veteran actor
William Gillette, played with
warm authority here by Mi-
chael Walker.
Gillette has made his for-
tune and built himself a Con-
necticut mansion by acting for decades as Sherlock
Holmes in a play he wrote — with, he notes, Arthur
Conan Doyle’s permission.
As the cast members of Sherlock Holmes take their
bows, though, a shot rings out — and Gillette collapses
on stage, wounded.
Cut to scene two in that Connecticut mansion, a
veritable Bat Cave of 1930s-appropriate gadgets. A se-
cret room! An intercom! “This
is where God would live if he
could afford it,” snarks house
guest Simon Bright, played
here with perfect youthful in-
souciance by Matt Arscott.
Amid all this techie splen-
dor Gillette, recovering nicely
from his bullet wound, is host-
ing an intimate Christmas Eve
party for his fellow Sherlock
cast members. As the guests
arrive, he begins to investigate
his own shooting.
Directed by Chris Pinto,
The Game’s Afoot — which has
lost its usual subtitle, “Holmes
Ken Ludwig’s 2012 The
Game’s Afoot takes a
comfortable genre
and winds it into a
fast-moving comedy
with a touch of farce.
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The dinner party turns more serious when the
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bic critic Daria Chase, who has panned every single one
of them in print, to the soiree. Chase is played here by
Erica Towe, whom we saw just last month as the daugh-
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to describe a graying woman of bitter personality. With
her rubbery face and genius for physical comedy, Towe
turns the vicious critic into the catalyst for belly laughs.
Tom Wilson is perfectly dry as Felix, and Jen Ferro
draws huge laughs as Inspector Goring. The cast also
includes Carol Massahos as Martha, William Gillette’s
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