Edgar Theater Company to present two-act play

The Edgar Theater Company will be presenting “WCKY,” a two-act play featuring a murder mystery by Pioneer Drama, this weekend. This play will be performed four times, including two dinner theaters.

Performances are scheduled for Friday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 8 at 1 and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 9, at 1 p.m.

The play is directed by Amber Guldan, an English Language Arts teacher at Edgar Middle School.

Tickets can be purchased at the door (cash only) or in advance (credit card) on the Edgar School District Website or the ETC Facebook page.

The play — which will be performed by a cast of 19 students with help from a five-student stage crew — is set in New York City on New Year’s Eve of 1939. The set is the interior of the radio station and includes a recording booth where the talent performs during the show, a sound station with a foley table, and an announcer’s booth. The walls of the set depict a New York City street and a popular wallpaper pattern from that time.

On New Year’s Eve of 1939, a brand new radio station, WCKY, is ready to air its first live national broadcast. Unfortunately, someone plans to put a stop to the success of the station and a murder is planned. Who could the murderer be? Is it one of the actors? A member of the writing staff? Someone on the production team? See if you can identify the killer before they strike again.

Flip Kobler and his wife, Cindy Marcus, have been penning plays together since selling their first screenplay to Paramount Studios in 1988. They have over 30 published plays for school performance. Before focusing on screenplays for young adults. the couple spent five years on staff at Disney where they wrote many animated films.