"Hound" opens Thursday
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It will take place at the Hotel's 'Le Jardin' lounge on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week and next. Royal Palms will be serving a gourmet three-course dinner at 7.30 p.m. and at 9 p.m. the CDS will be presenting the comedy-thriller by Tim Stoppard 'The Real Inspector Hound'. For $10 guests enjoy both Tickets are presently on sale every morning outside the Bank of Nova Scotia.
The Play's co-directors, Peter Smith and Steve Williams are reluctant to reveal exactly what the play is all about, but they assure that it has all the ingredients of an enthralling and entertaining 'whodunnit'. Its characters are drawn from the more eccentric side of life and include a wheelchair-ridden Major (John Martin), two delightfully emotional young ladies (Meg Paterson and Sarah Couch), a romantic hero (Martin Couch), a homely and lovable housemaid (Pat Stapeley) and Inspector Hound (William Connolley).
Two theatre critics (Jeff Cresswell and Alistair Paterson) complete the cast, though their role has a somewhat different angle to it than the characters of the main plot.
The play as all good thrillers do, has its fair share of murders, intrigue, whispered schemings and general excitement. The very stuff in fact which all good 'whodunnits' are made of. But at the same time the playwright is giving his audience a satirisation, a 'send-up', of the typical melodrama.
