If you haven’t seen Will Martin recently, it might be because his “Senator Daniel Webster” has gone undercover trying to catch a suspect. In Mark Stevick’s comedy-mystery, Goodnight, Captain White, it’s 1830 and all friends and well-wishers are invited to the Captain’s fabulous home for a party. But it’s “lights out” for the Captain and one of the guests dunnit. Webster goes undercover as servant only to reveal to the murder suspects that he’s been watching their every move, along with the audience, who he will deputize as the “committee of vigilance”. Under the guidance of Senator Webster, the audience will vote on the murderer. There are multiple endings based on the audience vote.
Goodnight, Captain White is based on an actual murder during the decline of Salem’s golden Maritime Age.
More familiar as the producers of downtown Salem’s long-running interactive witchcraft trial Cry Innocent,: the People vs. Bridget Bishop History Alive, Inc. will produce Goodnight, Captain White March 31st, April 1st and April 2nd at 7:30 in the library of the historic Hawthorne Hotel.
Ticket sales benefit the construction of a playground at Salem’s K-8 Saltonstall School. Will Martin, who made his theatre debut at the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School when he was in 8th grade, has spent the past year post college as a professional actor performing in Cry Innocent and as a standup comic all over New England.
Tickets are $26 or $36, and $10 of the higher-priced admission will go to the playground fund. Tickets can be purchased at goodnightcaptainwhitehh.bpt.me.