It’s opening night of the Mary Todd Lincoln Regional High School drama club’s production of the future hit musical “Beasts of the World,” a faithful adaptation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” and the cast is ready as they ever were... but when the production’s lighting board operator is killed by a mysterious falling object, the evening descends into madness, murder, melodrama, and general silliness! With all communication to the outside world blocked off, it is up to the members of the Mary Todd Lincoln Regional High School drama club to identify the murderer before it’s too late...

Content Warnings:

• Sudden blackouts
• Sudden noises
• Death/dying
• Slapstick violence
• Accidental misgendering
• Use of a prop gun

Production Team

Director: Alix Ziaja

Stage Manager: Lizzie Tosch-Lindsey

Production Manager: Oakley Powell

Faculty Supervisor: Cal Doerner

Lighting Designer: Jonah Fliegelman

Set Designer: Cal Kennedy

Costume designers: Anna Bogler

Costume Assistant:  Aiden Gordon

Sound designer: Ash Richardson- White

Music Designer: J. Cramer

Props Designer: Fae Simmons

Cast 

Mark O. White: Ryan Nivas

Jason Goldberg: Damien McCarthy

Colin Branch: Ike Rubin

Leanne Thornton-Wilder: Isabelle Casavant

Dee Matsky: Anna Bogler

Puppet Joe: Riley Sutherland

Brunhilde Sheffield: Hayley Summers

Obvious Audience Plant: Ash Richardson-White

Kevin the Stagehand, Jefferson Airplane, Billy, and Billie: Kamden Denomme