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 sixth of these being Professor Plum, played by Year 12 student Gabriel Blake.

“I got involved in this year’s production because it will be my last! As I am in Year 12, I won’t be able to perform at Damascus anymore so I wanted to go out with a bang. I am so glad that I can be involved within the production.

There have been some hilarious memories form rehearsal so far, just manipulating the ‘bodies’ have been an ordeal within itself as well as hearing the amazing accents people have been performing with.

My character of Professor Plum is certainly very fun to play, a very confident character – although wrongly so, because of the way he treats others. Some difficulties I found with the play is finding the right balance of feigned positive expressions when facing others, but being genuinely intrigued or thoughtful when the character is contemplating the murders which have just occurred.

I value being able to express myself via acting, I also enjoy seeing how others perform to make a coherent and vastly interesting play such as this, it is amazing to see how a play comes together whilst performing it, and it is extremely satisfying.

Overall I feel very excited to be a part of the Damascus Performing Arts community, and as it is my last, I am sure to make it count! But overall enjoy the time I spent in rehearsals.”

Gabriel Blake, Year 12 student