Summary Of Clue Play

LIVE Production Analysis

Who would have thought a board game would make an interesting play? Peter DePietro did and made a play with a book about it. I watched “Clue”, performed by a group of highschoolers in drama club from Indian Hills High School, on December 28. This play, as one would guess, is based off the board game “Clue”. The play began with a butler welcoming six guests one at a time into a mansion for dinner and mentioned to each one that their name must remain anonymous, only referring to each other with the names of the characters of the board game (Mrs. White, Professor Plum, etc). When all had arrived, the butler, Mr. Wadsworth, sat them down for dinner and the maid and cook served them. Finished with dinner, all the guests and Wadsworth went down to the study and
They were all brought here by Mr. Boddy, who was also blackmailing them. When this was all explained, Mr. Boddy had arrived. Many started to threaten that they would call the police when Mr. Boddy gave everyone a box. They all opened their box and found a weapon inside (wrench, dagger, rope, like the board game). Mr. Boddy told everyone that now that they each had a lethal weapon in their hand, if they call the police, the police will also accuse them. Then, he stated that the only way to avoid this humiliation would be to kill Wadsworth because he is the only one that would tell. At this point, Mr. Boddy turned off the light so someone would have the chance to kill Wadsworth while remaining nameless. When the lights turned back on, they found Mr. Boddy on the ground dead. From there on there were three other murders while everyone else played a real life game of “Clue” to find the murder. It turns out, the murder was Mrs. Peacock and she did all of this because of foreign bribes. Then, we find out the Wadsworth works for the FBI, so when Mrs. Peacock started to leave, the FBI