‘Clue’ at SF Playhouse is based on the movie that was based on the board game — and it’s a blast.
From left, Courtney Walsh , Dorian Lockett and Greg Ayers star in the murder mystery farce “Clue,” playing at SF Playhouse through April 22.Inspired by Agatha Christie-style drawing room murder mysteries, the board game “Clue” has been a cultural staple ever since 1949.
Hillbarn Theatre did the play in Foster City last June, Center Repertory Company produced it in Walnut Creek in October, and a high school edition has been making the rounds for a few years. Aside from the source material, it’s unrelated to the stage adaptation of the movie that San Francisco’s Boxcar Theatre created back in 2011.
Renee Rogoff is cold and evasive as the genteel Mrs. White, five times widowed under suspicious circumstances. Michael Ray Wisely’s wonderfully deadpan Colonel Mustard is always hilariously slow on the uptake. Stacy Ross exudes comical bewilderment as Mrs. Peacock, a prim and garrulous senator’s wife.
Also caught up in the whirl are Margherita Ventura’s thickly accented French maid Yvette with secrets of her own, Eiko Yamamoto as a cleaver-wielding cook, Jamiel St. Rose as a perplexed police officer, and Will Springhorn Jr. as the pompous Mr. Boddy and a variety of other roles.
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