 The Very Little Theatre concludes its 76th season with a four-week run of a murder-mystery, Ravenscroft, by Don Nigro.
This funny and suspenseful mystery is set in an English country estate in 1905. On a dark and snowy night, Police Inspector Ruffing is called to the estate to investigate the fatal plunge of Patrick Roarke down the main staircase. Ruffing becomes involved in the lives of five alluring and dangerous women who lead the inspector through a bewildering labyrinth of contradictory versions of the deaths of both Patrick Roarke and the late Mr. Ravenscroft.
There are ghosts on the staircase and skeletons in the closet. The inspector’s investigation leads him into his own tortured soul and a dark encounter with the truth.
The distinctive set design by Richard Scheeland is in keeping with the playwright’s instructions to “stage the play without walls,” so that the five female suspects are literally and figuratively on the edge of Inspector Ruffing’s consciousness at all times. |
