Who’s Crazy Now?” – A comedy in 3 acts

Times Contributor

 

The Hussar Municipal Library’s Dinner Theatre production of Samuel French’s “Who’s Crazy Now?” play written by Gerald Bell was a huge success on the weekend.

The evening began with cocktails, followed by a sit down dinner at 5 p.m. The play, a comedy in 3 acts, followed at 7 p.m. with a second intermission that featured dessert before finishing off the evening with the last part of the play.

The stage is set in an insane asylum where a number of lady school teachers, who have obviously lost their mental capacities, try to educate their pupils. This play starts hilariously when the ladies talk and act like their former charges. 

As every good book or play a love story is introduced with the visit of the niece (played by Meagan Hay) of the superintendent (Mr. Arthur, played by John Reinholdt) and a young staff doctor (Dr. Van, played by Tobias Parker). The neice and the doctor each think the other is an inmate. The Uncle who runs the asylum brings the niece there to show her what becomes of teachers, hoping she will change her mind. The niece thinks she would like to be a teacher, but after witnessing the antics of schoolteachers she decides to marry the young doctor in the end.

The successful evening brought in $3,850 from the ticket sales for the dinner and play, and the raffle of the iPad (won by Clay Armstrong) brought in around $500. 

Jennifer Pratt, Secretary of the Hussar Library Board, said “It was an extremely hilarious evening and wonderful to see some new faces on the stage. Daniel Schoblocher, from Strathmore who played the Principal in drag was priceless. Mary Ann Oxtoby played two characters of Miss Art and Miss Music and it certainly added to the dimension of the play’s theme.”