For this year’s play, the AHS Drama Club put on a phenomenal production of Clue. I had the pleasure of being in crew for Drama Club and being able to watch this spectacular show backstage.
The play starts off with six strangers who are invited to dinner. They are met by Mr. Wadsworth, played by Eliot Adler and Yvette, the maid, played by Aoife Reid. Mr. Wadsworth gives each guest a pseudonym: Miss Scarlet (Ariana Gagliardi), Mrs. Peacock(Lily Ritterman-Peña), Colonel Mustard(Jeremy Adler), Mr. Green(Tyler Tjaden), and Professor Plum(William Chiapetta).
Mr. Boddy, played by Oscar Salviaggo, hosts a dinner party, where Wadsworth reveals that Mr. Boddy has been blackmailing each of his guests. Mrs. White was a suspect of the murder of her husband, Mr. Green is a homosexual which could result in him losing his State Department job, Professor Plum had an affair with one of his patients, Mustard who is a war profiteer, and Scarlett who runs an underground brothel. Mr. Boddy then threatens to expose his guests by giving them each a weapon—a lead pipe, dagger, revolver, candlestick, wrench, and rope. He tells them to kill Wadsworth, so he turns off the lights. When the lights turn on Mr. Boddy is found dead, but nobody knows who killed him. Then Wadsworth explains that his wife committed suicide because of Mr. Boddys blackmail and he summoned the guests to force a confession out of Mr. Boddy and turn him over to the police. The cook is later found dead, stabbed by the dagger.
The weapons are locked up and a motorist who’s locked up in a lounge arrives. A key that’s believed to be the one that opens up the weapons cupboard is thrown outside. When the guests search the mansion in pairs, someone decided to burn the blackmail evidence, kills the motorist with their wrench, and unlock the cupboard. Mustard and Scarlet then find a secret passage and lock themselves in the lounge with the motorists’ corpses, until Yvette shoots the doors open with the revolver. A police officer investigating the motorist’s abandoned car arrives to use the phone. The mansion receives a call from Hoover, which Wadsworth takes alone. The guests successfully distract the cops so they resume their search until the electricity is turned off. Yvette, the cop, and a singing telegram girl are murdered with the rope, lead pipe, and revolver. When the electricity is turned back on, Wadsworth reveals that he has identified the murderer.
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