2006–2007
The Oldest Profession
by Paula Vogel
directed by Teresa Doggett
September 15–17 & 22–24
As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clentele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.
[M]ost of the time, because both the playwright and the cast at the West End Players Guild are having so much fun with the situation Vogel sets up, the audience has fun with it too. — Bob Wilcox, KDHX-FM
Betrayal
by Harold Pinter
directed by Renee Sevier-Monsey
November 3–5 & 10–12
Emma and Robert have decided to divorce. She turns for comfort to Jerry, Robert's best friend, with whom she had a long-standing affair. Moving backward in time, Pinter lets us see how these relationships came to be, how lies and oblique remarks led these three to their present situation.
Betrayal is an emotional cat-and-mouse game without a winner at the end. — Kelly Levins-Moore, KDHX-FM
Don Juan in Hell
by George Bernard Shaw
directed by Steve Callahan
January 19–21 & 26–28
Philosophy meets wit in a most delicious debate, in G. B. Shaw's classic dream sequence, which stands alone but is, in fact, the third act of his comic masterpiece Man and Superman. The Devil, Don Juan, Dona Ana and her father, the Commander, argue the relative merits of Hell and Heaven, exploring the curiously conflicting but complimentary drives that underlie the eternal tension between men and women.
"The best thing about Don Juan in Hell is the brilliance of Shaw's language" – Sarah Boslaugh, KDHX-FM
- Lighting Design: Amy Ruprecht-Belt
- Sound Design: Chuck Lavazzi
- Don Juan: Jason Meyers
- Devil: Robert Beck
- Ana: Lily Baker
- Statue: Richard Lewis
The Unexpected Guest
by Agatha Christie
directed by Mike Miko
March 9–11 & 16–18
It's a foggy night in Wales when a man with car trouble enters the nearest house to find a man dead on the floor, and the man's wife standing there in a daze, holding a gun. After speaking to her, this unexpected guest decides she is not the murderer and contrives to help her. The twists and shocks that ensue, as the other members of the household and the police get involved, are Agatha Christie at her surprising best.
"Far be it from my place to give anything away concerning the many twists and turns of the plot. I can say this much about director Mike Miko's production, however: it's loads of fun and caught exactly the right tone for this work." – Sarah Boslaugh, KDHX-FM
- Assistant Director: Pauline Ashton
- Costume Design: Pat Rosenbaum
- Lighting Design: Amy Ruprecht-Belt
- Sound Design: Chuck Lavazzi
- Starkwedder: Sean Ruprecht-Belt
- Laura Warwick: Liz Wienke
- Miss Bennett: Eleanor Mullin
- Mrs. Warwick: Dorothy Davis
- Henry: Charlie Heuvelman
- Sergeant Cadwallader: Daniel Higgins
- Inspector: Robert Ashton
- Julian: David Gibbs
- Jan: John Wolbers