Rockville High School Murder Mystery - Who Killed Romance

The 10th annual Murder Mystery is underway. Making it’s debut on March 2 at 7:00pm at Rockville High School where spectators will find out who really killed romance.

Could it be Taylor Swift, the serial dater of the twenty 21st century?

Or maybe Rose from Titanic who let her love drown in the freezing Atlantic Ocean?

Or could it possibly be Christian Grey, who cannot feel love, but only control?

With a diverse cast of famous hopeless romantics, it is up to the audience to figure out who killed romance.

"Who Killed Romance" is written by seniors Sam Gonyeau, Joyce Hida, and George Jansen.

Director Victoria Nordlund praised how well the play was written.

“I enjoyed working with everyone. It is very well written and the cast is so much fun to work with.” Nordlund said.

Co-writer, Sam Gonyeau said “We went through multiple ideas, but we found this one to be relevant because romance is dead in our generation.”

“It was difficult to come up with characters that people would still find relevant. The trio was the hardest to think of, but we chose the Disney princesses and after that, their monologue was easy to write.” Said Gonyeau, “it was one of my favorite to write.”

Hida said, “It was something that Sam, George and I wanted to do since our first year of creative writing. I’m proud that we've been able to collaborate on this and form a strong bond with the cast and crew.” She said. “I was impressed with how quickly we got it done. We all made it sound like we were one voice instead of three different voices. We were able to come together with our voice, what we like to call ‘our together voice’.” Hida said.

Jansen was unable to comment, but Gonyeau and Hida both agreed that the hardest part of writing the play was that they formed such a strong bond and had such fun together that they often times were distracted from writing the play.

“We are such good friends that we would hang out instead of writing the play. One time we even did George’s makeup when we were supposed to be writing.” Said Gonyeau.

Actor Hannah Brown (Daisy) said that she loved working on this year's’ Murder Mystery. “This is my third year and this is my favorite show so far.” Said Brown, who participated in last year’s "Who Killed the Copy Machine" and"Who Killed Christmas" during her freshman year.

The cast includes:

Taylor Swift - Samantha Gonyeau
Rose - Joyce Hida
Gatsby - Tanner Bosse
Romeo - Jared WErner
Cupid - Cierra Taber
Jasmin - Cori Diaz
Cinderella - McKenna Hubber
Aurora - Tanya Roy
Angelina Jolie - Holly Fisher
Heavenly Voice - Kaleigh Perkins
Christian Grey - George Jansen
Rhyme - Aime Lee
Reason - Sydney Parrot
Maleficent - Alex Ose
Prince Charming - Joey Radcliffe
Nicholas Sparks - Christopher Rich
Romance - Brianna Roque
Juliet - Sierra Browman
Daisy - Hannah Brown

Tickets are $7 and will include a fun evening with raffle baskets, food, and mystery.

Photo credit: Victoria Nordlund