Suspense Abounds in
CVU Drama's "Red House"
HINESBURG, VT (March 15, 2007) – An air of mystery and intrigue has settled over Champlain Valley Union High School. Final touches to the set, costumes, and scenes are being added in preparation for the opening, March 22, of "The Red House Mystery."  (continues below)
With experience from the CVU One Acts, three Williston seniors, Noah Mease, Tyrone Greenfield and Jared Smith have collaborated as writer, director, and producer respectively to create the production for their Graduation Challenge projects.
More than 35 students from Shelburne, Williston, Charlotte, and Hinesburg have been working as cast, crew and designers to make The Red House Mystery" the best show it can be. Planning for the show began in June of 2006, with rehearsals currently in progress.
Adapted from an A.A. Milne novel of the same title, "The Red House Mystery" has been hailed as one of the greatest novels of its kind. Set in the mid-1930's, guests enjoying their summer holiday at Red House find their evenings of croquet and billiards interrupted by the brutal murder of their host's brother.
Red House is not the idyllic summer escape it seems to be. Ghost stories, secret passageways, underwater evidence, and mistaken identities abound. Add in the weathered Major, the famous actress, and the whole cast of suspicious guests and we've got a real mystery on our hands.
Luckily, Toni Gillingham shows up out of the blue to solve the caper. But can she, even with the help of her trusted companion Bill Beverley, unwind the web of lies and deception wrapped around Red House?
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See photos from the rehearsal, click here The Show Team | Noah Mease - The Weary Playwright
Tyrone Greenfield - The Intrepid Director
Jared Smith - The Stalwart Producer
This year's CVU Drama production,
"The Red House Mystery," is the collaborative work of seniors
Tyrone Greenfield, Noah Mease
and Jared Smith.
"We are fulfilling the roles of director, writer, and producer, respectively, for our 2007 CVU Graduation Challenge projects.
The project received media coverage in the Burlington Free Press and Williston Observer. | | The Cast and their hometowns: | | Hinesburg: Meg Seaton, Theresa Keller, and Matt Francis. | | Williston: Brendan Brooks, Amanda Brooklyn, Jake Spector, Shadia Herath, Ben Brownell, and Jacob Tischler. | | Charlotte: Martha Waterman, Sadie Stone, and Lucy Weaver. | | Shelburne: Jahala Dudley, and Haley Perkins. | | | The Red House Mystery, A. A. Milne's (yes, of "Winnie the Pooh" fame) only mystery novel, was published in 1922. It has been criticized and praised for being all that is wrong with and all that is great about the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. |
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