Avast me Hearties! There’s a fine dinner and murder afoot in the banquet room of The Podollan Inn.
Murd-arrr!!! Pirates of the Salty Dog, is an interactive dinner theatre mystery.
The mystery unravels during a four-act play with a four-course meal prepared by Table 24 chefs, says dinner theatre director James Bowlby.
“Everyone gets to vote on who the murderer is,” he says, noting dessert will be served during the final scene.”
The play, purchased from Play Dead company that produces murder scripts for dinner theatre, takes place in a ship that once sailed the high seas with Capt. Big Beard at the helm.
That is, until the nefarious sailor decided to settle down, lead a peaceful life and re-fabricate the ship as a restaurant for food-loving landlubbers.
“It’s a fast-moving, crazy story about the shenanigans the pirates get into, along with a murder,” says Bowlby, noting that one of the pirates is being trained to improve his buccaneer ways. “The action takes place in and among the tables...”
Bowlby, who says directing dinner theatre is a new adventure, is delighted with his accomplished cast – Graig Burns, Aileen Brand, Evelyn Birch, Nathan Switzer, Jason Smeltzer, Tom Birch and Arthur Finch.
“We’ve got a really good cast of experienced people who are right into it and working very hard,” he says. “The idea is to make this a returning gig with another show at the end of June.”
Murd-arrr!!! Pirates of the Salty Dog takes place at 7 p.m. April 17 and 18 and 24 and 25 (cocktails at 6) and at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 19 and 26.
Tickets for the dinner are $60 and are available at Podollan Inn’s front desk or by calling 250-832-5024.