The Ransom of Red Chief at Sunnyvale Theatre: professional Theatre for Young Audiences
Sunnyvale Theatre, at Sunnyvale Community Center (550 East Remington Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94087)
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The last date listed for The Ransom of Red Chief at Sunnyvale Theatre was Saturday November 8, 2008 / 11:00am.
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A group of friends have gathered at a country estate for a dinner party. Dark secrets begin to trickle out about the recent suicide of the host's brother, who was believed to have embezzled from the company they both worked for. Further revelations -- romantic and otherwise -- then begin to leak out, leading to violent conflict and a timely surprise ending. California Theatre Center's production of J.B. Priestley's psychological thriller is a smorgasbord of twists and turns, intrigue, lies, betrayal and ghosts. Learn More
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Written on Nov 10 2008Outstanding play-Great acting and storyline. We all loved it!
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“It looked like a good thing...” So begins this uproarious tale of a brilliant scheme gone awry, which captures all the charm and exaggerated comedy of O. Henry’s classic story. Two bungling con men, Bill Driscoll and Sam Porter, in an attempt to quickly garner funds to pull off a land fraud scheme, decide to kidnap a child from
a rural town and demand a large ransom for the child’s return. Their choice of victim, the feisty offspring of a prominent citizen, gives them more than they bargained for! Their “victim”, who assumes the title of “Red Chief”, believes that Bill and Sam’s scheme is actually a camping adventure, and the little captive takes control!
Red Chief christens Bill “Old Hank the Trapper” and renames Sam “Snake-Eye the Spy”. Ready to go into battle at the slightest provocation, Red Chief inflicts terror onto the captors, while they try to communicate their terms to the Dorset family and threaten to send their captive home for acting up! With Red Chief, life goes from bad to worse as the ransom plans undergo unexpected twists and turns! Finally, in response to Bill and Sam’s demands, Red Chief’s family declares that only if the captors pay them $200 will they take the child back! Bill and Sam count out their dollars as they wearily accept defeat at the hands of a nine-year-old, but welcome the opportunity to finally be rid of Red Chief!