From our Master of Ceremonies, the Chairman, we quickly learn that this is going to be an evening of unusual theater, with the conventional boundaries between audience and performers being subdued if not erased. Cast members come out to us in our seats and briefly explain the role we are about to play.įrom their places throughout the theater, the cast members launch into the opening number, "THERE YOU ARE," welcoming the audience to their show. The setting is London's Music Hall Royale, where, we find, the acting troupe is about to embark on the premiere performance of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." We, the audience, get to play the part of THEIR audience, as well as contribute to the outcome of the evening's performance by our voting for certain options that were not addressed in the Dickens play, due to the author's untimely demise.
Originally presented as a New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joe Papp, the show premiered at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on August 21, 1985.
#EDWIN DROOD SERIES#
Initially "conceived as a springboard for a series of theatrical moments and events, using a literary curiosity as a trampoline," the novelty of the solving of the mystery from your theater seat spread to living rooms where folks enjoyed the play and it's unending possibilities as "an intricate parlor game." Rupert Holmes uses his imagination, and borrows that of the audience on a nightly basis, to help round out the story of Drood. What we are left with is an unfinished novel, published in part, leaving all of Dickens' readers to speculate on young Drood's fate. Dickens died, taking the secret to his grave.
A story about the disappearance of a wealthy, popular young man, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood was left incomplete when Mr. Charles Dickens, prolific, well-loved British novelist, started writing this, one of his most intriguing novels, late in his career.
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