The Prairie Arts Council announces their production of Deathtrap, a thriller-mystery- comedy. Deathtrap will be performed in the Prairie Arts Center Theater at 24 Park Ave. East in Princeton in conjunction with Princeton’s 48th Annual Homestead Festival on September 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. and September 8 at 2:00 p.m. 

Director Joe Ennenbach of Peru has cast five local actors, including:  Ken Schroeder of Princeton as Sindey Bruhl, Karen Roger of Utica as Myra Bruhl, Josh Bush of Princeton as Clifford Anderson, Jill Marti of Princeton as Helga ten Dorp, and Gary Talsky of Spring Valley as Porter Milgrim.

Deathtrap is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.  Written by Ira Levin, it is the story of Sidney Bruhl (Ken Schroeder), a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, who is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from Clifford Anderson (Josh Bush) a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife Myra’s (Karen Roger) help, is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it? Add in wacky medium Helga ten Dorp (Jill Marti) and the Bruhl family lawyer, Porter Milgrim (Gary Talsky) and Deathtrap provides twists and turns of devilish cleverness, and offers hilariously sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be spellbound until the very last moment.