By Amara Cruz

Assistant Editor-in-chief

Murder and a meal must go together. 

   For the second time in three years, the theater arts department treated an audience to a murder-themed dinner party, this time with the murder mystery that started out as a board game and was later made into a movie: “Clue.” 

   The dinner included spaghetti, salad, and dessert made by former theater student teacher Kassandra Woodsworth.

   The cast consisted of the butler, Wadsworth (junior Memphis Ferdin), Mr. Boddy (senior Genaro Alegria), Miss Scarlet (junior Naima Bayardo), Mr. Green (senior Jackson Bourne), Colonel Mustard (junior Cayden Bernal), Mrs. White (junior Lily Dye), Mrs. Peacock (junior Megan Jones), and Professor Plum (senior JonHenry Dinkins). 

   Based on the 1985 movie, “Clue” is a comical farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party with murder and blackmail on the menu. When their blackmailing host turns up dead, they all become suspects in his murder, and as the body count stacks up throughout the play, the audience tries to figure out who did it, where, and with what weapon. 

   After the final performance ended, the love for mystery and murder as well as the performance the theater department gave made parting with “Clue” hard, for at least one cast member.

   “It was just such a fun thing to do, that more days would’ve been amazing,” Ferdin said.