Galloping Gunty, The Ring Master	The FIB agents	Questioning the suspects	The crowds gather to hear...	...who dunnit (revealed at 8.45pm

Cast: Irene Meredith, Jacque Reichard,Gerry Teig, Betsy Benner, Beth Holladay, Aaron Hrenko,Hadley Ramsey, Rachel Stoltz, Caroline Holladay, Carrie Carson, Cathy Walsh, Chris Ramsey,BJ Crampton, Christie Selagy, Dylan Furlano, Emily Coons, Becky McKay, Ireland Robb, Nancy Goyda, Rebecca Stoltz, Jeremy Collins, Maxx Gardener, Nathan Risley, Kris McLaughlin, Lisa Teixeira, Amanda Giangiulio, Peter Gianguilio,P.J. McLaughlin.

Shady Characters: Lisa Gretch, Amy Gottsegan, Samantha Moon, Zachary Deckman

Production team and public relations: Joe Finn (director), Teddy Barclay, Diane Teig, Carol Buckwalter, Carolyn Selagy, Stephanie Giangiulio, Dori Carson, Caroline Smith, Lisa Teixeira, Betsy Warner, Steve Warner, Gary Smith

Performed Friday August 7th, 2009. The eccentric, Sir Charles Bewley has brought his traveling circus show up from Maryland into Pennsylvania. Kennett Square is his first stop and a huge circus tent has been hoisted up in the Anson B Nixon Park.  Frannie Calhoun, the circus barker, is roaming the streets of Kennett Square telling anyone who will listen that the show opens tonight!  There is, perhaps, more than a touch of urgency to her efforts; the show is in trouble. Principia Gains, who has invested her meager fortune in this tour is threatening to withdraw her investment (egged on, we should say, by her much poorer sibling, Minima Gains who clearly feels that Principia could better spend her money – on Minima, for example). The circus folk know what is going on and tensions are high. Rumors abound that the mysterious Countess Rasendyl (always accompanied by her less than savory maid, Spiggot) is a possible alternative investor should Principia withdraw. Captain Courageous and his two assistants, Marvo and Biff, are not worried. Their fabulous flea circus will be a hit wherever they play (“see the fleas jump through flaming hoops without artificial aids of any kind!”). The Castanet Flamenco dancers (Felicia and Constanzia) plan to return to Portugal if all goes sour, but Philippo, their guitarist is hopelessly in love with one of the Singing Royals (Fergie, Diana, and Elizabeth) and won’t be going home. Frontier Bill and Kansas Kate (lasso and sharpshooting) needed one last show to be able to retire to their ranch in Wyoming, and Unner Fredricksdotter (the “Icelandic Nightingale”) is desperately worried that Sir Charles will fire her what ever happens because there have been complaints that her voice is not what it once was (and Iceland is so very cold). Petunia Palimsest (the fortune teller) didn’t see any of this coming – after all, the show played very well in Port Deposit. Bad Sally, the Great Esperanza’s ventriloquist’s dummy keeps asking everyone for a loan (“just to the end of the week – you know”) but the Amazing Mona (whose slightly creepy assistant, Lucy, is rarely seen except during performance) claims that it doesn’t take much brainpower to guess what Esperanza will spend the money on: there was that rather ugly incident when a bar tender tried to expel Esperanza from a bar in Harvre de Grace, and goodness what might have happened if the Twirly Sisters (Cassie, Frederica and Harriet – “More plates in the air than you have ever seen!”) had not intervened. But all this drama is as nothing compared to what is about to befall! Galloping Gunty, the petulant ring master, who announces each act while dashing around the ring standing on the back of a galloping pony, is found most foully murdered outside the Genesis Building. Special Agent in Charge, Samuel Burger, and his faithful sidekick Special Agent Nuttley Fries appeal to the citizens of Kennett Square for help. And so it begins