"Stage Fright" opens at Lamplighters Theatre in La Mesa

Stage Fright

by Charles Marowitz

Directed by Jerry Pilato
Produced by George Bailey

Lamplighters current season continues with a mystery!

A leading metropolitan drama critic is led by an attractive production assistant into a recently discovered 19th century theatre. There, the critic will film a television interview for a documentary on the actor John Wilkes Booth, who once acted on those very boards. The critic, F.F. Charnick, notorious for his venomous reviews, visibly warms to the classy elegance of the British P.A. But no sooner has he downed a glass of wine than he falls drugged and unconscious.

When he awakens, he is firmly tied to a Shakesperian throne on the stage of the old theatre with an ominous woman intoning Lady Macbeth beside him. The attractive PA has turned into Mitzi Crenshaw, an actress whom he has savaged in dozens of reviews. She now plans to carry out an elaborate plot to murder the man who virtually destroyed her and her husband’s career. Her husband also joins the scene. The torture carries on, inspiring blood curdling confessions from the critic and ending with the actors granting him a reprieve - but not before his most embarrassing revelations have been taped on video.

FEATURING: Patrick Griffin, Steve Murdock, and Devi Noel

Performances are October 9 - November 8, 2015
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm

General Admission: $20
Seniors/Students/Active Military: $17
Group rates available for 10 or more

Purchase tickets online at www.lamplighterslamesa.com, or reserve by contacting the Box Office at (619) 303-5092 or boxoffice@lamplighterslamesa.com (Please note that the Lamplighters Box Office now has a new phone number).

Lamplighters Community Theater is located at 5915 Severin Drive in La Mesa (in the La Mesa Village Station Center at the corner of Amaya Drive).

Visit our website at www.LamplightersLaMesa.com for more information