Notes from Andrea Lewandowski
TNIM transformed the Community Centre into a hopping start-up night club on Sept 20, bringing the audience back to the 1980s with a murderous twist.
The murder mystery dinner theatre show, Killer Night at Club 85, written by Robert LeBlanc, and directed by Heddy Sorour and Helen Steenburgh, featured a cast of colourful, if suspect, characters.
Club owner, Lane (Scott van Slyck), and his hapless sidekick, Wanda (Daria Sangiovanni), welcomed the crowd over a tasty buffet of deli-cious food provided by Leatherworks Catering while a live band (Side Ponys) jammed to familiar 80s tunes. Chef Fagiolo (Vicki Graham) threatened to inadvertently poison the crowd by serving chicken tartare.
Club hostess, Sam (played by newcomer Pia Bibby), bemoaned her realization that Lane and Wanda were too broke to pay their staff.
Femme fatale, Claire (Connie Coleman), had deep pockets and an even deeper attraction to club owner Lane, much to her (Russian KGB operative) date, Tom Dickenairy’s (Keith Stanton) displeasure. Seems everyone had a beef with Lane until the high-tech cell phone-wielding club owner stumbled into the room with a giant knife in his back, leaving a cloud of suspicion and accusations in his wake.
