Murder mystery actors revealed

Durant Main Street has teamed up with and Roma Italian Restaurant and Durant Community Theatre to bring you “Murder at Café Noir.”  Everyone will get lost inside of a Humphrey Bogart Private Investigator style movie as Richard Archer, P.I., looks for a runaway on a forgotten island in the shady local café, Café Noir.   

Actors (all of Durant) include Lucas Johnson (Richard Archer, P.I.), Marissa Hanson (Sheila Wonderly), Aaron Adair (Thursby/Vangilder/Rigfield), Angela Burleson (Madam Toureau), Aaron Rains (Simon Gutterman), Elena Lewis (Maria Larue), and Daniel Snow (Anthony Cairo). 

Aaron Adair, Director of Theatre at SOSU, actually plays three characters. This is nothing new for him as he performed multiple roles at once as part of the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival’s “A Tuna Christmas” in July 2009. His professional experience as a teacher involves Paris Junior College, Commerce High School, and Greenville High School. He received his master’s degree at Texas A&M Commerce. 

Durant Community Theater’s Artistic Director Diana Adair received her B.S. at Texas A&M Commerce and graduated from Greenville High School. She has extensive improve experience, and this will come in handy with this murder mystery. 

With the suspicious death of the café’s owner only hours before, Rick must solve the murder fast before his quarry ends up in irons.  Was it the black marketeer, the French Madam, the voodoo priestess, the former British attorney, or his runaway femme fatale?  At times during the show Rick will let the audience decide what he should do next, and the decisions the audience makes will change the course of plot in this comic tribute to the Bogart era. 

Tickets are now available for the murder mystery dinner theater that includes a specially prepared Italian meal by Roma’s. Guests arrive at 6:00 p.m. and may mix and mingle until the meal is served at 6:30. Everyone is involved in helping solve the mysteries. The person sitting next to you could be the one who committed the crime.  

Guests attending the third annual valentine murder mystery on Monday, February 8, are welcome to come dressed in their finest 1940s attire. Cost for the evening is $65 per person, and tickets should be purchased in advance as seating is limited. Credit cards are accepted, and no reservations can be accepted without payment. For more information, contact the Durant Main Street office at 580-924-155.