NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Stage 9 is presenting The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard the next two weekends in Hutchinson.
"It's a comedy and a spoof on murder mysteries in Britain," said director Kris Anschutz. "It's a farce. It's very, very heady dialogue, at times. It shows the human condition and how we'd like to be somebody else.
Ted Blakely who plays Birdboot is ready to help the community laugh a little.
"It's one thing to learn your lines and practice them," Blakely said. "It's another thing to get up on stage and start working them out together. There have been some rehearsals where we've gotten up there and just kind of been playing around with it and suddenly innuendo, allusions, things that we had not seen before, all of the sudden pop up. That's been a lot of fun."
The show is on from Aug. 4 to 6 and 11 to 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Stage 9 at 9 South Main. The box office opens at 6:30 p.m., curtain time is 7:30 p.m. The play will last a little over an hour with no intermission.