New Kensington Civic theatre

" Entertaining the A-K Valley for over 60 years"

 

WAIT UNTIL DARK

 

Written by Fredrick Knott

Directed by Pam Farneth

 

The mystery thriller’s heroine Susy Hendrix, a blind Greenwich housewife who becomes the target of three thugs searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who since has been murdered. The trio tries to convince Susy her spouse has been implicated in the crime and the only way to protect him is to surrender the doll. More murder and mayhem ensue when she refuses, with the stage lights turned off for the final scene when Suzy levels the playing field by plunging her apartment into total darkness.

 

MARCH 2010 at Penn State New Ken

 

OUT OF ORDER

 

Written by Ray Cooney

Directed by Ron Ferrara

 

When Richard Willey , a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition’s typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely successful British farce. All that can go wrong will go wrong to the delight of the audience.

 

May 2010 at Penn State New Ken

 

NKCT

2009-2010  Season