Lower Lake >> Soroptimist Interntional Clear Lake (SICL) hosted its first mystery dinner theater last Friday night to a standing-room crowd. The opening night number swelled to 98, and because the Lower Lake School House Museum has a capacity of 100 some had to be turned away earlier in the day.
With so much interest, it is likely the group will plan another murder mystery dinner again in the not-too-distant future, SCIL membership chair Wanda Harris said in an email.
The play
One early autumn day, six people passed through the gates of Killingsworth farm to visit Elizabeth. One of them, a cold-blooded killer. There are three women and three men in the production played by: Brenda Crandall as Dr. Chelsea Baron, Reiko Hattori as Viki D’Atley, Elzabeth’s look-alike sister, Harris as head librarian and town gossip Kathryn Lawless, Randy Hare as Norman D’Atley, Shawn Garrison as Enrique, and Bert Hutt as Michael Whitesides.
Five attendees were successful in guessing the murderer: Norman D’Atley, who killed Elizabeth Killingsworth with the gold cork screw in her neck. Norman thought in the dark he had murdered his wife instead of Elizabeth, her look-alike sister, because he had always been in love with Elizabeth and not his wife.
To learn more about SICL, a nonprofit organization that raises funds for women and girls globally, contact Harris (707) 225-5800 or harriswc1@att.net or president Olga Martin Steele at olgamartinsteele@icloud.com.
