by Eliza Rohda ‘26

As part of York University’s homecoming festivities, the YU Theatre Department will present Ramshackle Inn, a mystery farce in three acts. 

 

“I just love all the one-liners throughout the play,” said Sidney Richie, a sophomore from Wichita Falls, Texas. “It’s such a great show with so many lines for all ages to laugh at.” 

 

Audiences can expect to find a suspicious cast of characters milling about Ye Olde Colonial Inn, set in the 1940s East Coast. The optimistic Belinda Pryde (Sidney Richie) has saved her money for twenty years to buy the inn, hoping to meet interesting people as the new owner. And the people are certainly “interesting”—as drama is revealed and dead bodies are discovered, Belinda must figure out who among the inn’s inhabitants she can trust. 

 

The cast includes Dalton Brandt, Abby Brooks, Terry Dilliard, Jason Dopps, Addison Harrold, Alex Harwell, Joseph Hobbs, Megan Johnston, Cheyenne Kiely, Orren Limbrick, Sidney Richie, Faith Torstensen and Cal Young, with Jude Gray as the assistant director. The show is directed by John I. Baker III, associate professor of communications and theatre at York University. Baker, whose efforts include the summer Children's Theatre at the York Playhouse and YU's Traveling Children's Theatre, is in his 29th year with the university.

 

“I’m so thankful for the opportunity to have gotten to work with so many amazing actors!” said Addison Harrold, a junior from Wichita, Kansas. 

 

Watch Ramshackle Inn on October 16, 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee on Sunday, October 19, at 2:00 p.m. Performances will be held in the Bartholomew Performing Arts Center at 1098 E 10th St. on York University’s campus. Visit york.edu/boxoffice to reserve general admission tickets for $10 or student and senior tickets for $7.