Halloween Weekend Brings Romance, Mystery, and Murder to the Berwick Academy Stage: Performing Arts Season to be Kicked-off with A.A. Milne’s “The Perfect Alibi”
The Berwick Academy Upper School Drama Department will kick-off the performing arts season with the fall play, “The Perfect Alibi,” to be presented Friday and Saturday, October 30 and 31, on the third floor of the historic Fogg Memorial Building on the campus of Berwick Academy.
The “Perfect Alibi” was written in 1928 and hails from the “golden era” of British murder mysteries. The play, also known in the U.K. as “The Fourth Wall”, was subsequently adapted from the stage into a movie of the same title. Howard Haycraft, the well-known mystery scholar, calls “The Perfect Alibi” an “ingenious affair in which the audience watched both the commission of the crime and the steps leading up to its detection,” making it somewhat unusual as mystery plays go.
Students, representing grades 9-12, will participate on stage and behind the scenes to mount this classic written by Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. Long before his acclaim as a children’s writer, Milne achieved literary and artistic success as a playwright and humorist. Milne wrote plays, several novels and contributed numerous pieces to Punch, the British humor magazine.
Performance times are 7:00 p.m. Reservations are not required. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students a and will be available at the door on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information, contact Liz-Anne Platt at lplatt@berwickacademy.org.
Founded in 1791, Berwick Academy is an independent, coeducational country day school located in South Berwick, Maine. For over 200 years, the Academy has pursued its mission through a purposeful blend of strong academics, arts, and athletics. Berwick serves nearly 580 students in grades K-12 from the seacoast area of southern Maine, New Hampshire, and northeastern Massachusetts.
