This year’s annual performing arts production is Clue on stage, which is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery, on 20-23 July in the Valda Ward Auditorium.

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. It is the classic Who did it, WHERE, and with WHAT!

Tickets are available at: https://www.trybooking.com/BZHFR

And now, we wish to introduce our community to these six mysterious guests…the first of these being Mr Green, played by Year 10 student Zac Cripps.

“I got involved in the production because I’ve always loved acting and got a rush from presenting my hard work on stage, so I thought that this opportunity would be perfect.

Although rehearsals are hard work, they’re great fun as well. My absolute favourite memory from the rehearsal period is probably when Andrew Seeary was teaching me and another cast member how to fall properly, and in order to do this, he physically went through the motions, facial expressions and all, and just started lying on the ground, motionless. Lots of laughs were shared that day.

This production is a difficult one, especially when you must play such a larger-than-life character. In the performance, we must accurately hit our lines in a quick fashion, which can be extremely hard sometimes. As well as that, playing a character like Mr Green, an introverted, timid character, it can sometimes be difficult to find how he would react to those ques.

This experience has given me so many new skills that I can take into the next production, and I’m so grateful for that. I’ve learnt how to play a new type of character, as Mr. Green isn’t someone I would normally audition for, and I am so happy that I learnt how to play someone so quirky.

Damascus Performing Arts has been a great experience, the friendships I’ve made with the other cast members have been great and they have all done a great job on this performance.”