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And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie

Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre
F. Scott Black Theatre
July 9 - 25, 2021
 
Directed by Linda Chambers
 
TraceyAnn Tokar Smith
Stage Manager
G. Maurice "Moe" Conn, III
Scenic & Lighting Design
Terry Edwards
Sound Design
Eva Grove
Costume Design
Jason Randolph
Technical Director
Lisa Boeren
Properties Master
 
And Then There Were None is presented by special arrangement with 
Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company.

And Then There Were None © 1939, 1943 Agatha Christie Limited All rights reserved. 'AGATHA CHRISTIE' and the Agatha Christie Signature Mark are trademarks of Agatha Christie Ltd.. All rights reserved.
The rights to this play are controlled by Agatha Christie Ltd..

For further information about this play, others by Agatha Christie and about other stage adaptations of her stories, please visit: http://www.agathachristie.com


Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council. To discover more about the Maryland State Arts Council and how they impact Maryland, visit msac.org.

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Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre would also like to thank our Season Sponsor Towson University. To discover the Arts and Culture offerings at Towson University, visit www.towson.edu/campus/artsculture/.

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DIRECTOR'S NOTE

In 2019, Cockpit In Court presented Dame Agatha Christie’s play, The Unexpected Guest, in the Cabaret Theatre.  Christie mentions this play only once, and briefly, towards the end of her autobiography (pg 536 of 550 pages, including epilogue), and doesn’t devote even an entire sentence to it:

“Later I was to write a play called The Unexpected Guest, and another* which, though not a success with the public, satisfied me completely.”  (*The play that satisfied her completely was not TUG, it was The Verdict.)  This gave Cockpit the extremely rare opportunity to present an Agatha Christie mystery to which no one knew the answer.

Tonight, in the F. Scott Black Theatre, Cockpit presents the play Christie based on what she considered her most difficult novel to write, and what much of the world considers her masterpiece. The novel itself is the best selling mystery of all time. The play has been produced onstage hundreds of thousands of times, and has been made into at least a dozen films and numerous TV series. 

Maybe you know the ending.  Maybe you just think you know the ending.  In any case, it’s not the ending, but the journey that’s most important.  

In March of 2020, ATTWN was cast and within a week or so had assembled its crew, ready to begin work on a production that would open in the Cabaret Theatre in July of 2020.  The journey from the usual excitement and anticipation of a Cockpit production in normal times turned into the devastation of cancelling an entire season of shows.  A promise was made to the casts and crews of the five shows that when theatre came back, all would be invited to step back into their roles.   Months passed and then slowly, tentatively, and always with an eye to safety, the decision was made to bring summer theatre back to Cockpit.  

ATTWN was notified in March of 2021.  A month of rehearsals on zoom, then in-person rehearsals once a week, then slowly more; masked, tested on the way into the campus, sticker-approved; sadness at losing two cast members and joy at two new additions; sets, lights and costumes completed weeks before the usual tech due date – this has been our journey.

Welcome back to Cockpit In Court!  Your journey - to Soldier Island - is about to begin.

Linda Chambers
Director

 

 

 


Scenic Breakdown


The Living Room of a house on Soldier Island,
off the coast of Devon, England

TIME:
August, 1939

ACT I
Scene One: A summer Evening in August
Scene Two: The following Morning

ACT II
Scene One: The same day. Afternoon
Scene Two: The same day. Evening
Scene Three: The following Afternoon

 

 


Cast in Order of Appearance

Albert J. Boeren

Rogers
Liz Boyer Hunnicutt

Mrs. Rogers
Kai Mellarkey

Vera Claythorne
Jake Stuart

Philip Lombard
Joshua Michael Smith

Anthony Marston
Ted Burke

William Blore
John Dignam

General MacKenzie
Susan K. Liberati

Emily Brent
Thom Peters

Sir Lawrence Wargrave
Joey Hellman

Dr. Armstrong

Creative Team

Linda Chambers

Director
TraceyAnn Tokar Smith

Stage Manager
G. Maurice (Moe) Conn, III

Scenic & Lighting Designer
Ben Pierce

Scenic Artist
Terry Edwards

Sound Designer
Eva Grove

Costume Designer
Jason Randolph

Technical Director
Lisa L. Boeren

Properties Master
Andrew J. Boeren

Light Board Operator
Angela J. Boeren

Run Crew
Allison Boechel, Andrew Boeren, Erin Johnson, Beck St. Lawrence, Ben Pierce, David Sunderland

Set Construction/Paint Crew

Meet the Company


Albert J. Boeren (Rogers)

Albert is pleased to finally be back on stage especially with Cockpit and directed by Linda. Previous Cockpit shows include Hairspray (Mr. Pinky), Curtains (Sidney), Singin' in the Rain (Dexter), and 1940's Radio Hour (Biff) among many others. He has also directed Cockpit's productions of The Odd Couple, Don't Drink the Water, and Social Security. He has also directed Dundalk Community Theatre's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Other shows he has directed include Arsenic and Old Lace, Barnum, Godspell, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Bye, Bye Birdie. Favorite stage roles include The Music Man (Harold Hill), Annie (Rooster), Biloxi Blues (Epstein), Love, Sex and the I.R.S. (John), and The Drowsy Chaperone (George). Albert works for Amazon in their sort center. He has been married to his wonderful wife Lisa for 36 years and is the proud father of Andrew and Angela. Enjoy the return to the world of the theatre!!!

Liz Boyer Hunnicutt (Mrs. Rogers)

Liz is delighted to return to Cockpit in Court! Cockpit audiences may remember her in Blood Brothers (Mrs. Johnstone), Crimes of the Heart (Lenny), The Inspector Calls (Mrs. Birling), Urinetown (Ms. Pennywise), Curtains (Carmen), The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Marjorie), The Gazebo (Nell), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Sonia), Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Juanita), Disaster! The Musical! (Shirley) and The Unexpected Guest (Mrs. Warwick). Some favorite experiences elsewhere: Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett) at Vagabonds Theatre, Into the Woods (The Baker’s Wife) at MTM and Assassins (Sarah Jane Moore) at Spotlighters. Graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NY, NY, she is currently the Resident Director for The Children’s Playhouse of MD. Liz is also the director for Cockpit’s Young Jesters production of Disney's Moana Jr. later this season. She is happily married to James Hunnicutt.

Kai Mellarkey (Vera Claythorne)

Kai is thrilled to be getting back to acting with their community theatre debut. They graduated from Salisbury University in 2019, where they portrayed roles such as She (Stage Kiss) and the Nurse (Medea). They are grateful to Cockpit in Court for the opportunity and for the warmest welcome they could have asked for.

Jake Stuart (Philip Lombard)

Jake is thrilled to be returning to the Cockpit in Court stage in the first post-pandemic production! Jake has frequented many stages in the Baltimore area. His most recent roles include: Jerry Lukowski (The Full Monty, Tidewater Players), Lt. Sam Weinberg (A Few Good Men, Tidewater Players), Curtis Jackson (Sister Act, Cockpit in Court), John Wilkes Booth (Assassins, Phoenix Festival Theater), Trevor Graydon (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cockpit in Court), Sammy (The Wedding Singer, Cockpit in Court), Mark (RENT, Phoenix Festival Theater), Tateh (Ragtime, Howard County Arts Collective), and many more. You can also find Jake singing with his acoustic duo, Cheap Giraffes, all over the Baltimore area. Many thanks to his wife Lauren and daughter Carly for allowing him the time to rehearse and perform!

Joshua Michael Smith (Anthony Marston)

Josh is excited to appear in his second Cockpit in Court production! After making his Cockpit debut as Jan Warwick in The Unexpected Guest, he is excited to be back on stage performing. As a classically trained clarinetist with undergraduate degrees in both Music Performance and Music Education from Shepherd University, Smith is no stranger to performing. Smith currently works for The American Pops Orchestra as the Artistic Operations Manager and has assisted in producing multiple television concert performances on National PBS. These performances have included stars such as Patti LaBelle, Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell, and Audra McDonald. In the Fall, Smith will be attending Ohio University as a Master of Music student studying Instrumental Conducting with the hopes of conducting professional ensembles, directing University bands, and/or music directing on Broadway. Favorite past roles of Smith are Jan Warwick in The Unexpected Guest, Tony Kirby in You Can't Take it With You​​​​​​​, ​​​​​​​Narrator in ​​​​​​​The Apple Tree​​​​​​​, and Edna Turnblad in ​​​​​​​Hairspray.

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Ted Burke (William Blore)

Ted is SO excited to be back on the stage after this pandemic-induced break!! Having started in the theatre at age 17, there haven't been too many times since then that he was without at LEAST one show a year. While Ted has been involved with directing, stage-managing, designing lights, choreographing fight scenes, costuming, and building sets, his passion has always been "treading the boards". Ted is very grateful to Linda for allowing him to be part of our shared vision for ATTWN, and feels extremely humbled to get the opportunity to work with such an amazing cast. Special thanks to TraceyAnn for handling our schedule conflicts, and the ZOOM meetings with a happy and smiley outlook! Most of all, Ted is SUPER thankful to Caye, for allowing him to be away from home so often, helping run lines, and not being bothered about hearing different voices coming out of the computer room...
Thank you for sharing this time with us! Without you, there would be no live theatre.

John Dignam (General MacKenzie)

John last appeared on the F. Scott Black Theatre Mainstage in 2017 as Lieutenant Rooney in Arsenic and  Old Lace  and also appeared on Cockpit's Cabaret stage in 2018 as Milt Fields in Laughter on the 23rd Floor.  Other Baltimore/DC area groups he has worked with prior to the pandemic include Spotlighters Theatre (Moon Over Buffalo), Vagabond Players (And Then There Were None), Just Off Broadway (Rumors), Salem Players (The Royal Family; Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka; Peter Pan; The Trial of the Catonsville Nine), Laurel Mill Playhouse (Arsenic and Old Lace; Loves and Hours; Laughter on the 23rd Floor; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play), Dundalk Community Theatre (The Graduate), Woodbrook Players (The Mousetrap), Memorial Players (Romulus; The Wizard of Oz), and Stand Up For…Theatre (The Rocky Horror Show;  La Cage Aux Folles). John would like to thank Linda, TraceyAnn, and the entire cast and crew for their support.

Susan K. Liberati (Emily Brent)

Susan has appeared in over forty productions in the Baltimore area and in Pennsylvania. Some roles she has enjoyed are M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias, Lady Thiang in The King and I, Lizzie in The Rainmaker, Babe in The Pajama Game, Elizabeth in The Crucible, and Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady. A favorite role here at Cockpit was Mrs. Shinn in The Music Man, as well a variety of other roles. Susan also enjoys “performing” as a math instructor at Harford Community College and teaching piano lessons in her home. She thanks her husband Gino for his support. Susan would like to dedicate her performance to the memory of her father. Without him, she would never have learned the joys of the theatre.

 

Thom Peters (Sir Lawrence Wargrave)

I am thrilled finally to be performing on the main stage at Cockpit after 12 previous appearances on the Courtyard and Cabaret stages in productions dating back to 1977. My most recent appearance at Cockpit was in The Gazebo in 2016. I have a BA in drama from Loyola College and have also enjoyed performing at Fells Point Corner Theatre and Vagabond Players. I am happily retired from a long career as a technician at WMAR-TV, and I am pleased to be working again with our director Linda Chambers and with the other talented members of this cast.

Joey Hellman (Dr. Armstrong)

Joey returns to Cockpit in Court after having performed in The Secret Garden, Lucky Stiff, High Society, The Foreigner, Curtains, How to Succeed… and Mame (among others). CCBC-Dundalk and Catonsville audiences may remember him from A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Leader of the Pack, Anything Goes, No, No, Nanette, Hello Dolly!, The 1940’s Radio Hour, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, A Grand Night for Singing and O’er the Ramparts (as Francis Scott Key). Among the three CCBC campuses, he has directed The Little Foxes, Steel Magnolias (twice), Driving Miss Daisy (twice), Plaza Suite and Butterflies are Free in addition to Agatha Christie’s Go Back for Murder and Towards Zero. He has also worked as backstage dresser and running crew on several other CCBC shows. He is the Administrative Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins’ GYN/OB Residency Program.

Linda Chambers (Director)

Linda's previous productions in Cockpit’s Cabaret began with Crimes of the Heart in 2005 and have continued through 2019’s The Unexpected Guest.   Although an enormous fan of the Cabaret space, she is pleased to be working in F. Scott Black’s Theatre (where she has directed twice for CCBC’s Academic Theatre: In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play and The Menaechmi Twins).  She has written and is directing a one-woman show about Mother Jones (Let The Fight Go On) with actress Janel Bosies.  Chambers teaches scriptwriting at Carver Center for Arts & Technology, writes short stories and is working on the next part of her fantasy coming of age story, The Swords of Ialmorgia (Parts 1 through 3 are available on Amazon Kindle)

TraceyAnn Tokar Smith (Stage Manager)

TraceyAnn is pleased to be back in the theatre!  Previously, she stage managed The Unexpected Guest and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean at Cockpit. Other stage management credits include Mamma Mia (2019 and 2020 productions), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, A Year with Frog and Toad, Side Show, The Bridges of Madison County, A Few Good Men, Something’s Afoot, and Rumors for Dundalk Community Theatre. Directing credits include Three Tall Women (Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre), Shadowlands (Dundalk Community Theatre), Rimers of Eldritch (McDaniel College), Arsenic and Old Lace (Vagabonds Theatre), and Billy Would Have Been Thirty Today (Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival). Properties credits include A Year with Frog and Toad, Side Show, Catch Me If You Can, Something's Afoot, and My Fair Lady for Dundalk Community Theatre. Away from the stage, TraceyAnn works as a middle school Literature and Language Arts teacher at Sisters Academy of Baltimore in Lansdowne, MD.

G. Maurice (Moe) Conn, III (Scenic & Lighting Designer)

Moe is in his eleventh year with CCBC where he is the full-time Technical Director and Designer at CCBC Catonsville’s Center for the Arts Theatre. He has an MFA in Scene Design and Technical Theatre. Moe has been doing technical theatre since 1993, as a Designer, Technician, Technical Director, and Educator. He served as the Technical Director for five summers at Cockpit in Court where he continues to design both lights and sets. He has also designed for Vagabond Players in Fells Point. Moe has received multiple nominations for Best Scene Design from Broadway World.com and Received Best Scenic Design from the MD Theatre Guide’s Readers’ Choice Awards. When not backstage, Moe volunteers with “Behind the Scenes” which provides financial support for theatre technicians in need throughout the entertainment industry. He also helps coordinate the Long Reach Long Riders charity motorcycle ride, (www.LRLR.org) to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity fights AIDS and Behind the Scenes, two theatre-based charities.

Ben Pierce (Scenic Artist)

Ben is thrilled to be working on his first Cockpit production. He is a freelance director and designer.Some of his favorite directing highlights include Wrong Disease at Single Carrot Theatre, Eurydice at The Warehouse Performing Arts Center, Just Like You at Theatre Charlotte, & Bare: a Pop Opera at The Edge Theatre Company.  With a degree in Theatre Design from Winthrop University, he worked in the Greater Charlotte area for almost ten years before moving to Baltimore in 2019.  Some of his favorite shows include On the Verge (scenic/lighting design, WPAC), Ripcord (Scotty, scenic/lighting design, WPAC), Hairspray (scenic/lighting design, Community School of Davidson), SOTR A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius, co-director, total design, WPAC), Into the Woods Jr. (scenic/lighting design, Mooresville Community Children's Theatre), & Peter & the Starcatcher (scenic design, Community School of Davidson).  He is also a board member of Artistic Synergy of Baltimore. 

Terry Edwards (Sound Designer)

Terry is so happy to be back this summer at Cockpit in Court to run sound for And Then There Were None. In the past, Terry has had the pleasure of working shows like, Working, Wedding Singer, Curtains, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Me and my Girl, and Legally Blonde to name a few. When not behind an audio board, Terry works at MGM National Harbor as an Audio Visual tech working on Camera Switching/Cam Op and sound for small events. Terry plans on working audio in The Theatre at MGM in the future.

 

Eva Grove (Costume Designer)

Eva Grove (Costumer) is so happy to be costuming And Then There Were None, and to be a part of live theater’s return to the Baltimore area! She has costumed many shows for Cockpiti in Court Summer Theater including Don’t Drink the Water, Toward Zero, The Gazebo, Sylvia, Avenue Q, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Around the region, you may have also seen her work in shows such as Catch Me If You Can, The Graduate, A Year With Frog & Toad, The Bridges of Madison County, and The Full Monty.

Jason Randolph (Technical Director)

BS Math, College of William and Mary
MFA Rinehart School of Sculpture, MICA
MFA Technical Theatre and Design, UVA
TD/Resident Scenic Designer Single Carrot Theatre 2014-2017
TD CCBC Essex 2015-present
TD Cockpit in Court Summer Theater 2016-present

Lisa L. Boeren (Properties Master)

Lisa has worked on over sixty productions in the Baltimore area for many companies including Dundalk Community Theatre, Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, and Phoenix Festival Theatre. Lisa just celebrated 15 years as the Box Office Manager for CCBC and also serves as the Administrative Manager for Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre. In her spare time, she sits on the Board of Directors for Dundalk Community Theatre and the Twirltastix Boosters. She is thrilled to be sharing this experience with her dream team, Albert, Andrew and Angela. 

Andrew J. Boeren (Light Board Operator)

Andrew will be a senior at Elizabethtown College in the Fall majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Music. He is no stranger to the stage having grown up performing with Children's Playhouse of MD as well as Cockpit in Court. Favorite roles include Winthrop in The Music Man with CPM, a Newsboy in Gypsy and a Royal Prince in The King and I at Cockpit in Court. Andrew has also played percussion for many productions including Godspell for Cockpit, Mamma Mia! for Dundalk Community Theatre, Legally Blonde for Phoenix Festival Theatre as well as all eight productions while in high school at The John Carroll School. He is also a well rounded theatre technician having run crew, sound and lights for both Cockpit and DCT.

Angela J. Boeren (Run Crew)

Angela will be a Junior at Shippensburg University in the Fall majoring in Social Work and minoring in Art. She is no stranger to the stage having grown up performing with Children's Playhouse of MD as well as Cockpit in Court. Some favorite performances include roles in Les Miserables, Oliver, West Side Story and Thoroughly Modern Millie with CPM; The Wizard of Oz, The King and I, Gypsy, and Nice Work if You Can Get It with Cockpit; Mamma Mia! with Dundalk Community Theatre and Pippin, Tarzan, Mary Poppins and The Addams Family with The John Carroll High School. Angela is also a sixteen year member of the TwirlTasTix Baton Twirling Teams where she is now an Assistant Coach.


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COCKPIT IN COURT 2021 PRODUCTION STAFF

Artistic Managing Director | James Hunnicutt
Administrative Manager | Lisa L. Boeren
Producer | Dr. William Watson
Executive Producer | Dr. Anne M. Lefter
Mainstage Technical Director | Jason Randolph
Box Office Manager | Lisa L. Boeren
Box Office Staff | Eva Grove, Thom Purdy
Business Manager | Johanna Lawrence
Production Manager | Brad Norris
Communications Assistant | Cathy Kratovil
Production Photographer | Angela J. Boeren

 

COCKPIT IN COURT BOARD OF DIRECTORS

James Hunnicutt | Artistic Managing Director
Lisa L. Boeren | Administrative Manager

John Chrzanowski | President
Thomas Hessenauer | Vice-President
Patricia DeLisle | Recording Secretary
Sophia Montgomery | Corresponding Secretary

Robyn Alvarez | Kacey Conn | Dave Guy | Estelle Harris
Louise Higgins | H. Ray Lawson | Jennifer Otero
William Pheil | Sam Ranocchia | 
Kristin Rigsby
R. Christopher Rose | James Shirk | Ralph Welsh

 

SPECIAL THANKS

Dr. Sandra L. Kurtinitis, President, CCBC
Dr. Joaquin Martinez, Provost & Vice President of Instruction
Melissa Hopp, Vice President, Administrative Services
Dr. William Watson, Dean of Arts & Communication
Nicholas Van Horn, Chair, Performing Arts and Humanities
Dr. Anne Lefter, Director, Performing Arts
Michael Elspas, Assistant Director, Creative Services
Jackie McTear, Senior Designer, Creative Services
Marc Smith, Technical Director, CCBC Dundalk
Terri Raulie, Assistant Professor, CCBC Essex
Marc Ershler, Campus Director, Essex
Jaime Alvarez, Geniia Elliott, Jenn Kim
CCBC Fabrications Lab
Ava Lenet, Dialect Coach
Angela J. Boeren | Other Duties as Assigned!
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