Riverland Community College Theatre has delayed its third production by one day, opening this Thursday instead of Wednesday because of recent winter storms. This weekend, however, escape your cabin fever as the department’s hope filled season of legends continues with the mastermind character of Sherlock Holmes in “Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot.”
Danger and hilarity are non-stop in this murderously funny whodunit set during the Christmas holidays in 1936. Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role as Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks quickly turn dangerous. It is then up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears.
