Play Time for Adults

Sherlock Holmes will be played by social studies teacher Chad Gorsage. Tim Boyd, the girls’ soccer coach at Westminster High School, will play Sir Henry Baskerville. Business teacher Jimmie Robeson? She will portray Lady Agatha.

Not since anyone can remember, the school’s theater program will produce a play with a cast entirely of teachers and school staff. The production of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” a mystery written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the turn of the last century, will be performed at the campus theater Feb. 8 to 11.

The 15 cast members represent six academic departments and three support staff areas.

Theater program director Gregg Munsell said the idea of an all-teacher-and-staff play developed from teachers just wanting to have fun. Munsell has been with the school for nine years and has found no record of a similar venture. He said his theater students are looking forward to their backstage roles, including stage manager, sound and lighting operators.

Not having center stage “is a change for the kids,” Munsell said. “It’s been a little different for me, but most of the process is the same.”

School plays are fund-raisers for the theater program and a successful production this year could mean the return of an all-staff production next year, Munsell said.

Tickets are $4 in advance and $6 at the door. Information: (714) 893-1381, Ext. 297.

Alex Murashko can be reached at (714) 966-5974.