Passage Into Fear is inspired by noir classics like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" and "Strangers on a Train" and Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express."
The play is set onboard a transcontinental passenger train in 1917 during the waning days of World War I. An elderly woman, Miss Lillian Merriweather, boards the train insisting she knows of a plot on an international scale, then promptly disappears. Other characters include a young American woman on a final fling in Venice before returning home to be unhappily married, a pugnacious 8-year-old war orphan, a Member of Parliament and his wife, an elderly Gypsy who has wandered the continent homeless for more than 50 years, a handsome young Swiss doctor hiding an immense secret, and a ruthless German countess bent on achieving her evil ends no matter who gets in her way. The solution to Miss Merriweather's disappearance ultimately has it roots in understanding the very causes and history of the War itself.
Admission/Cost:
Dates and times:
Friday, April 10 - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 11 - 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 12 - 2:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.northcountyplayers.org
The play is set onboard a transcontinental passenger train in 1917 during the waning days of World War I. An elderly woman, Miss Lillian Merriweather, boards the train insisting she knows of a plot on an international scale, then promptly disappears. Other characters include a young American woman on a final fling in Venice before returning home to be unhappily married, a pugnacious 8-year-old war orphan, a Member of Parliament and his wife, an elderly Gypsy who has wandered the continent homeless for more than 50 years, a handsome young Swiss doctor hiding an immense secret, and a ruthless German countess bent on achieving her evil ends no matter who gets in her way. The solution to Miss Merriweather's disappearance ultimately has it roots in understanding the very causes and history of the War itself.
Admission/Cost:
Dates and times:
Friday, April 10 - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 11 - 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 12 - 2:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.northcountyplayers.org
