“Clue” will be performed Friday and Saturday nights in Fredonia.

The Community Theatre Project at Main Street Studios in Fredonia is currently running the classic whodunnit play, “Clue” on stage.

With a script written by Sandy Rustin, based on the Paramount Pictures movie and screenplay written by Jonathan Lynn, and the family favorite Hasbro board game, this play is about an hour and a half of constant laughs. Showcased in this performance, directed by area music teacher Philip McMullen, are a cast of local community members and college students, with a wide range of talents and backgrounds.

The play takes place in Boddy Manor, a large and menacing Victorian mansion, during the height of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. “McCarthyism” was the practice of blaming and accusing people of subversion and treason without a basis of actual evidence, a modern-day witch hunt at the time. The cast of eclectic and colorful characters, under the lead of Wadsworth the Butler, (played by Riley Wilson), are comically introduced to each other and all of their individual nuances make for an entertaining clash of personalities. Once exposed of their scurrilous backgrounds, who knows what lengths they will go to, to keep the evidence from going public.

The Main Street Studios Community Theatre Project started up in the old Card Seed Factory warehouse, at 50 West Main St, Fredonia, right before the pandemic shut everything down. Due to this, 2023-24 ended up being an inaugural run of performances which have been selling out on a regular basis. The entire run of performances has been put on by community and student volunteers from all walks of life, landscapers, teachers, lawyers, secretaries, professional musicians, and theatre students, all with a love of theatre and presenting stories.

Hot off of the Easter weekend of shows which left audiences laughing all night long, there will be two more shows this coming weekend, Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. The show is double casted and staggered, so that every night it is a different group of performers, each with different personalities, interacting with each other. A fun note is that there are actually four sets of parent/child groups involved, between the set creation team and the actors, which makes for a great family affair on stage.

Tickets may be purchased at https://search.seatyourself.biz/webstore/accounts/mainstreetstudios/buy-tix , or at the door. Come down and see if you can determine whodunit!