'Murder is a Game' at Somerset Valley Players

June Ripley (Kim Mackanic) aims a gun and Stephen Leech (Wayne Rossignol) prepares to strangle an oblivious Toby and Sloane Bigelow (Christopher Hall and Reba Holley) in "Murder is a Game" at Somerset Valley Players. (Photo by Steve Goodman.)

"Murder is a Game" opens this weekend at Somerset Valley Players.

Mike Schuller directs a play by Fred Carmichael about a successful, married mystery writing team whose well of inspiration has run dry.

Hoping to inspire them, their publisher sends them for the weekend to an old mansion built for a movie set, and peoples it with hired characters unknown to each other to act out a murder plot. The husband-and-wife duo delight in the game and solve the fake murder, but then there is a real murder ...

Tickets cost $20 for adults and $18 for seniors and students. The show will run at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays March 7-23.

Somerset Valley Playhouse is located at 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough.

For more information, call (908) 369-7469.