Performances will be held at the Shire Hall, Menangle Street, Picton.

3pm 4th Sept Audition. We need 3-4 females, and 7-8 males, plus others interested in operating sound effects, lighting, props, and seating patrons.

The play season will commence on Saturday 12th February, 2011, with a Charity Dinner Show at 6:30pm, with show at 8pm.
Performances will then be:
Saturday, 19th February – Matinee at 2pm and Dinner Show at 6:30 (Show 8pm)
Saturday, 26th February – Matinee at 2pm and Dinner Show at 6:30 (Show 8pm)
Saturday, 5th March – Dinner Show at 6:30 (Show 8pm)

Set in the late 1940s, ten people find themselves stranded in the lonely house on Soldier Island when their hosts send word that they have been detained. A mysterious voice, afterwards discovered to come from a gramophone record, indicts each one of them – the eight guests and the two servants – of murder.

It transpires that no-one has met their hosts and that they have evidently been decoyed to the island. First one and then another dies; each death according to the rhyme of Ten Little Soldier Boys, and with each death, one of the little china figurines on the mantelpiece, is found broken.

The tension grows as they begin to suspect that the killer is, in fact, one of themselves. Eventually only two are left; when the real killer makes themselves known, it makes for a twist the audience will not expect. It doesn’t end as terrible as it might seem so the audience goes away on a happy note.