A Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Co-Production

Clue

March 12 to March 31, 2024
Opening Night March 15
Spriet Stage
Clue

Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn
Written by Sandy Rustin
Additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price
Based on the Paramount Pictures Motion Picture
Based on the Hasbro board game CLUE
Original music by Michael Holland
Directed by Dennis Garnhum

Running Time: 90 minutes (no intermission)

Age Recommendation: 12+

Content Advisory: This production contains loud noises, sudden blackouts, flashing lights, smoking, physical violence, and sexual innuendo. 

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THE STORY

On a dark and stormy night, six mysterious guests are invited to a remote mansion for a very unusual dinner party. Wadsworth, the butler, provides each guest with an alias – Scarlett, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard – along with a very unique party favour: a weapon. With the aroma of deception in the air, dinner is served. The main course on the menu? Murder. So, whodunnit? With what? And where?

Based on the cult classic film and timeless board game, the Grand Theatre and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Company are proud to present Clue – a “killer” slapstick comedy full of murderous mayhem that will leave audiences guessing (and howling) until the very end.

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AfterWORDS

On select Wednesday evenings, immediately after the performance, join host Breanne Ritchie in theatre's lounge for a brief guided discussion with guest artists, creative team members, and Grand staff members.

Tea Talks

Join us for creative conversations pre-show with host James Stewart Reaney and special guests connected to the show. Tea Talks begin at 12:00pm before the Wednesday 1:00pm matinée.

  • Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - featuring Vanessa Brown, author of “The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice”

Open Captioned Performance

For patrons who are Deaf, hard-of-hearing, or who enjoy watching a performance with surtitles, this performance is live-captioned with text appearing on a screen that is positioned in the Orchestra Right section. To best view captions, it is recommended to book in Orchestra Right (seats 29 through 38). Click the link below or call the Box Office for more information: 519-672-8800.

From the Stage Door

 

“…reminds you what a breezy night of pure entertainment feels like.” - TheatreMania
 
“CLUE is tremendous, old-fashioned fun…” - Broadway World
 
“Like the game, it’s a good indoor amusement with just enough intrigue to keep you on your toes.” - Chicago Reader

The Cast

Sharon Bajer
Sharon Bajer
Mrs. Peacock
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Hand to God, The Seagull, August:Osage County, Steel Magnolias, The Penelopiad, Top Girls (RMTC); Kill Me Now (NAC/RMTC); Of Mice and Men (Citadel/RMTC); James and the Giant Peach (MTYP); The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow Stage).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Little Bird (Crave); Written in the Stars, Love at Daisy Hills, Project Christmas Wish (Hallmark); Escaping a Madhouse;The Nellie Bly Story (Lifetime) .
Other: Certified Intimacy Coordinator (IDC, ICC), playwright (Afterlight, Burnin’ Love, The Outside Inn, The Gingerbread Girl, Molly’s Veil, Hersteria), director, trained at Studio 58 and Stratford’s Michael Langham Directors program. sharonbajer.com
Intimacy Director
Petrina Bromley
Petrina Bromley
Mrs. White
For the Grand Theatre: Oil and Water.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Clue (Royal Manitoba Theatre Company); Come From Away (Broadway); As You Like It (Stratford Festival); Enron, Tartuffe, The Sound Of Music, Metamorphoses (National Arts Centre).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Son Of A Critch (CBC); Surreal Estate (SyFy); Snook Out On Bail (Bell Fibe).
Other: Meta @petrinabromley
Rosie Callaghan
Rosie Callaghan
Cop; Understudy for Mrs. White, Miss Scarlet
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): April Fools (Segal); Frankenstein: A Living Comic Book (Kidoons/Geordie/Segal); UNCOVERED: The Music of ABBA (Musical Stage Co.); Rumour Has It (Port Hope); Last Night at The Gayety (Centaur); Antigone, Wind in the Willows (Two Planks and a Passion); Robin Hood (Festival Antigonish); Ed 'N' Ed's New BNB, Neddy Norris Night (GMTF).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Painkiller (Netflix); Fatal Vows (Investigation Discovery); Jane Krakowski: Get Happy (CBC/Just For Laughs).
Other: Musical Stage Company Banks Prize Winner 2021/2022. Graduate of Dawson College's Professional Theatre Program, and Randolph College of the Performing Arts.
Kamal Chioua
Kamal Chioua
Motorist; Understudy for Wadsworth,
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): RENT, The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow); The Velveteen Rabbit (MTYP); End of the Line (Walk&Talk); School of Rock (WST).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): The Spencer Sisters (CTV); SkyMed (Paramount+); Tales from the Loop (Amazon Prime).
Other: Training with The Village Conservatory, Theatre and Film BA from the University of Winnipeg. Kamal would like to thank his mother, father and granny for their never-ending support. @KamalChioua on Instagram.
Colonel Mustard
Beau Dixon
Beau Dixon
Colonel Mustard
For the Grand Theatre: Debut
Theatre Credits (Selected): Guys 'n' Dolls, HMS Pinafore (Stratford Festival); Ghost Quartet (Crow's Theatre); Marjorie Prime, The Father (Coalmine Theatre); Hamlet, Harlem Duet (Tarragon Theatre); The Colour Purple (Neptune Theatre); Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Soulpepper Theatre); As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Canstage/ Shakespeare In High Park); Passing Strange (Obsidian/ Musical Stage Co).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Station Eleven (HBO/Paramount); The Expanse (Amazon Prime).
Other: Recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Two Toronto Critics Awards, Calgary Critics Award, two Dora Mavor Moore and Betty Mitchell nominations. KM Hunter Award finalist. www.beaudixon.com
Alex Furber
Alex Furber
Mr Boddy; Understudy for Mr Green, Professor Plum
For the Grand Theatre: Under the Mango Tree (Workshop), The Wars, Chariots of Fire.
Theatre Credits (Selected): It's a Wonderful Life (Western Canada Theatre); Buying The Farm, Marathon of Hope, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The War Show, A Few Good Men (Drayton); Saltwater Moon (GFT); My Night With Reg (Studio 180/Mirvish); Jitters (Soulpepper); Anne & Gilbert (National Arts Centre); Clue, Cabaret (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); War Horse (Mirvish).
Film and TV Credits: Macy Murdoch, Most Dangerous Game, Murdoch Mysteries, Mayday, Flashpoint.
Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada
Jesse Gervais
Jesse Gervais
Wadsworth
For the Grand Theatre: Grand Ghosts.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Breathing Hole, Women of the Fur Trade (NAC); Jane Eyre, Silver Arrow, Crazy For You, Alice Through the Looking Glass, One Man Two Guvnors, Measure for Measure, A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labours Lost (Free Will Players); 6.0, 4th Graders Present..., Fat Pig (NLT); 10/12, Passion Play, Relistic Jonese (Wild Side Productions); Buddy, Little One, Let The Light Of Day Through (Theatre Network); Joy Ride, Black Horse (Caravan Farm Theatre); Evelyn Strange, Lost Lemoine, Eros and the Itchy Ant (Teatro Live).
Film & TV Credits (Selected): Tiny Plastic Men Seasons 1-4 (Super Channel); Caution May Contain Nuts (APTN); Blind Ambition: The Wop May Story.
OTHER: Jesse has a BFA from the University of Alberta; www.jessegervais.com
Toby Hughes
Toby Hughes
Mr. Green
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Yaga, Hand to God, Women of the Fur Trade, It's a Wonderful Life (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Outside Joke: The Improvised Musical, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Henry IV, Henry V, Comedy of Errors, Richard III, A Winter's Tale (Shakespeare in the Ruins); The Golem's Mighty Swing, After Jerusalem (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre); The Snail and the Whale, The Hobbit, House at Pooh Corner (Manitoba Theatre for Young People).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Sniper: Rogue Mission, Channel Zero, The Pinkertons.
Other: Member of the fully-improvised musical improv company Outside Joke: outsidejokeimprov.com
Fight Captain
Reena Jolly
Reena Jolly
Miss Scarlet
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Trouble in Mind, Network (RMTC & Citadel); Perfect Wedding (TIP); Cabaret, Venus, Assistance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTS); Hamlet (SIR); Torn Through Time (MTYP); Marat/Sade, Nothing Sacred, After Magritte, Titus Andronicus (Black Hole Theatre).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Meet Me Under The Mistletoe, Made for Each Other, Love in Design, Journey Back to Christmas (Hallmark); Don't Even (Bell Media/Crave); Elizabeth Thomas Story (Lifetime); Channel Zero (Syfy).
Other: Graduate of the NTS Acting Program 2022. U of M – Black Hole Theatre Graduate of 2018.
Tracy Penner
Tracy Penner
The Cook, Singing Telegram Girl, Backup Cop
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Into the Woods, The Seagull, Top Girls (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); John and Beatrice, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (Theatre Projects Manitoba); Village Wooing (zone41 Theatre); Awaken (zone41 with Shakespeare in the Ruins); Frankenstein (Catalyst Theatre).
Film and TV Credits: Elizabeth Thomas Story (Lifetime); Spencer Sisters (CTV); Psycho Killer (New Regency).
Other: Graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of Alberta. Tracy is also a playwright and wrote Awaken, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (produced in 2020 for RMTC’s ShakespeareFest).
Derek Scott
Derek Scott
Professor Plum
For the Grand Theatre: Barnum.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Slava’s Snow Show (World Tour including Broadway and London’s West End); The Neverending Story (YPT/NYU Skirball Ctr); The Overcoat (World Tour incl. London’s Barbican); Cirque du Soleil, The Stratford Shakespearean Company.
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Gooby (Gooby); Tah Dah! featuring Derek Scott, The Tracey Fragments, The State Within (BBC); Just For Laughs.
Other: Derek’s has performed his solo work in over 40 countries, from Bahrain to Brazil, from Australia to Ethiopia, from Las Vegas to North Korea (yes, North Korea).
Rosalie Tremblay
Rosalie Tremblay
Yvette
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits: Henry V (Driftwood Theatre).
Other: Graduate of The National Theatre School

Creative Team

Dennis Garnhum
Dennis Garnhum
Director
For the Grand Theatre: Artistic Director from 2016 - 2023. Productions directed: Elf, Grow, Home for the Holidays, Cabaret, Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Prom Queen: The Musical (High School Project), Chariots of Fire, Beethoven Lives Upstairs, A Christmas Carol.
Theatre Credits (Selected): World premiere of musical The Little Prince (Theatre Calgary); Barber of Seville (Florida Grand Opera, Opera Lyra, Vancouver Opera); Timothy Findley's The Wars (Theatre Calgary, Vancouver Playhouse); Director / Adapter of Lost: A Memoir (Theatre Calgary, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Neptune Theatre); Director / Adapter of King Lear (Theatre Calgary, Bard on the Beach); Carmen, La Traviata (Pacific Opera); West Side Story (Bangkok University); Rat in the Skull (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Stratford Festival (four seasons); Shaw Festival (six seasons).
Other: Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary from 2005-2016. Recipient of a Calgary Award for Community Achievement in Arts and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Dennis published his first novel TOWARD BEAUTY: Reigniting a Creative Life on the Camino de Santiago In 2022.
Brian Perchaluk
Brian Perchaluk
Set & Costume Designer
FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Once, Papers and Over the River and Through the Woods.
THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): Burning Mom, The Three Musketeers, Billy Elliot the Musical, Harvey, August: Osage County, The Lonesome West, Patience (RMTC); Picasso at the Lapin Agile, M. Butterfly (RMTC/NAC); The Color Purple (RMTC/Citadel); La Cantatrice chauve et La Leçon (Théâtre Cercle Molière); The Whipping Man (WJT); The Hockey Sweater and The Little Mermaid (Rainbow); Post Democracy (PTE).
Other: Brian’s work has been featured at theatres across the country, including two seasons each at the Shaw and Stratford festivals. Brian is a graduate of U of W and NTS, and is the recipient of Gemini, Jessie Richardson, Prix Rideau and Evie Awards.
Kevin Lamotte
Kevin Lamotte
Lighting Designer
FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: For The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again, Little Shop Of Horrors, Billy Bishop Goes To War (National Tour), The Foursome, Dancing In Poppies, North, Patience, The Glass Menagerie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): Clue (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Mahabharata (Barbican London); Blithe Spirit, Playboy of the Western World, The Clearing, Gem of the Ocean, Everybody, Desire Under the Elms, White Christmas (Shaw Festival); A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); La Traviata (Opéra de Montréal); Fidelio (Pacific Opera Victoria).
Other: Kevin has created lighting designs for theatre, music, dance and opera companies across Canada and internationally. He is the Director of Lighting Design at the Shaw Festival and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada/IATSE 659.
Jacquie Loewen
Jacquie Loewen
Fight Director
For The Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Fight Director:
Yaga, Into The Woods, The Rez Sisters, Matilda (RMTC/
Arts Club/Citadel); Vietgone (RMTC/fu-GEN/
Hope and Hell); Hand to God, Private Lives, Gone With
The Wind, August: Osage County, Romeo and Juliet,
The Seafarer (RMTC); Macbeth (Bard on the Beach);
Indigenous Playwrights New Works Workshop (PTC -
Vancouver); Beauty & The Beast (Rainbow); The Flood
Thereafter (CS); Don Giovanni (Manitoba Opera);
Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of
the Shrew (SIR); Prarie Nurse (PTE). Actor: The Three
Muskateers, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Top Girls
(RMTC).
OTHER: Jacqueline was a founding member of the
Canadian Comedy Award-nominated sketch group
Hot Thespian Action.
Michael Duggan
Michael Duggan
Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Into the Woods, New, Calpurnia (with NAC/BTW); Vietgone (with fu-GEN/Hope and Hell); Hand to God (Royal MTC); The Nutcracker (RWB); The Little Mermaid, The Wizard of Oz, Mamma Mia! (Rainbow Stage); Space Girl, The War Being Waged (PTE).
Other: 2022/23 National Mentorship Program with Royal MTC
Samantha Desiree
Samantha Desiree
Assistant Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Clue, Yaga, Into the Woods, Network, The Rez Sisters, Orlando (RMTC); Narnia (Bad Hats/MTYP); Castor et Pollux, Mansplaining Division (MUO); Looking Glass, Season Launch 22/23 (WCD); The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow Stage). Apprentice Lighting Designer: Narrow Bridge (WJT). Production & Tour Coordinator: Seven Visions digital school tour (Sarasvàti). Associate Producer/Sound Design: Othello (Echo). SM/Production Assistant: FemFest 2019 & 2020 (Sarasvàti). Associate Company Member of Winnipeg Independent Theatre (WIT). Artistic Founder of Beau Theatre Co. Performer Services Manager for the Winnipeg International Fringe Festival.
Upcoming: Merrily We Roll Along (Dry Cold).
Other: Bachelor of Honours University of Winnipeg.
Jazz Marcelino
Jazz Marcelino
Apprentice Stage Manager
For the Grand Theare: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Among Men, Clue, Burning Mom, Assassinating Thomson (RMTC); RENT, The Hockey Sweater: The Musical (Rainbow Stage); La Cenerentola (MB Opera).
Film and TV Credits: Alter Boys (Farpoint Films)
Other: Graduate of the BA Program at the University of Winnipeg: Theatre and Film Production
Julia Anderson
Julia Anderson
Apprentice Set & Costume Designer
FOR THE GRAND THEATRE: Debut.
THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): Directing: Brother Henrick, The Hockey Sweater, A Flicker of Light on a Winter Night (MTYP/WSO); Sapphire Butterfly Blue (MTYP Summer Studio). Acting: Maple Route (Theatre Incarnate); Lies of a Promiscuous Woman, Macabre Tales (Winnipeg Fringe); Puppetry: Home for the Holidays (MTYP).
FILM/TV (SELECTED): Acting: Mr. Pow, Hindsight (pilot), (YerStroy Transmedia). On-set mental health support for underage cast: Blood (Netflix). Makeup and special effects: Don’t Waste a Precious Minute (Electric Monk Media). Voice work in hundreds of commercials for TV and radio.
OTHER: 23 years of teaching in schools and programs across Manitoba including at MTYP where she was the Assistant Director of Theatre School. Thanks to Vern for helping me to get a clue and love to Sean.
Theresa Thomson
Theresa Thomson
Apprentice Director
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Directing: Brother
Henrick, The Hockey Sweater, A Flicker of Light on
a Winter Night(MTYP/WSO); Sapphire Butterfly
Blue(MTYP Summer Studio). Acting: Maple
Route(Theatre Incarnate); Lies of a Promiscuous
Woman, Macabre Tales(Winnipeg Fringe);
Puppetry: Home for the Holidays(MTYP).
Film & TV Credits (Selected): The Apprentice,
Doc, Nuit Blanche, This is Wonderland, Omerta, Wind at
My Back, Flashpoint.

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