“Let’s Murder Marsha” was this year’s production by Kipling Community Theatre.

The Monk Ferris comedy played to dinner theatre crowds Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1 and 2, and a matinee audience Sunday, Dec. 3.

A happy housewife named Marsha (played by Teena Manns), hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries, overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her!

With the assistance of her next-door neighbour, she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion.

When her mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she, too, is in on the diabolical scheme.

When her maid’s date, a policeman, shows up to take the maid out, Marsha thinks he is on to her poisoning attempt. Finally, her intended victims discover what she has supposed and decide to teach her a lesson by actually pretending to be murderers.

Other cast members included Duane Leicht as Tobias Gilmore, a Wall Street broker and Marsha’s husband;
Christina Weeding as Persus Dabor, the interior decorator;
Max Krecsy as Virgil Baxter, the Gilmores’ friend and neighbour;
Bonnie Dash as Bianca, the Gilmores’ maid;
Rosemarie Debreceni as Marsha’s mother, Lynette Thoren, and
Nolan Hubbard as Ben Quade, Bianca’s boyfriend.
Joyce Leicht served as prompter.
The play was directed by Duane Leicht.