Casting is complete for the second production at Theatre 29, the Morongo Basin’s premiere playhouse. “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery: Murder at Checkmate Manor,” directed by theater veteran Marty Neider, is a comedy by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr. about a drama group that experiences the horrors of what can go wrong on opening night. Donette Swain has been cast as Phoebe Reece, who herself plays five different roles. Desert Theatre League award-winner Analisa Pilecki plays Thelma Greenwood, who has two roles in the play. Mandi Pushkar is cast as Audrey Forbes-Farguahar, who has four roles in the play within a play; Amanda Winters will portray Felicity Crabtree, who is cast as two actors. Also cast in the play are Curtis Mohn and Brianna Sears as stagehands, and Leonard Weber as the Inspector. The Farndale Murder Mystery opens February 28 and runs for five weekends, with Sunday matinees March 9 and 23.
