Review by: Samantha Behen
Overall, the winter play was a success. The cast and crew were obviously dedicated and worked very hard to put on this murder mystery.
The play started with a group of nine people gathered together by a “Mr. Unknown Owen.” They soon realized that one among them is committing murders.
One fantastic element of And Then There Were None is the nine soldiers on the mantel. Around the time a character would die, a soldier would drop down and disappear. This was done tactfully and smoothly and I, sitting in the front row, only noticed once.
In one of the last climatic scenes, the character Phillip Lombard jumps up after being shot in order to save Vera Claythorn from Sir Justice Wargrave. Lombard’s fake gun did not fire when it was supposed to, but the actor, senior Ricardo Solis, did a great job of improvising and jumped across the couch to strangle Wargrave (senior Marvin Byas).
Concluding with the scene with Claythorn and Lombard leaving together, the play ended somewhat abruptly. Two characters survived, and the murderer was killed. It was unexpected and refreshing.