Saint Sebastian Players, at Saint Bonaventure Church.
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Those who appreciate the exaggerated characters and neat justice of whodunits will find classic satisfaction in Saint Sebastian Players’ production of Tim J. Kelly’s The Burning Man, but the play doesn’t offer much enlightenment to anyone hoping for a deeper probe into human psychology. Set in a wealthy recluse’s remote hunting lodge (on a dark and stormy night yet), the script employs characters right off the Clue board, brought together for the reading of the recluse’s husband’s will: besides this bitter aristocrat we meet the dead husband’s niece and cousin (one young lady intellectual and reserved, the other a sweet ingenue), a suspicious butler, the professional but aloof lawyer, the Dragnet-ish detective, and, for comic relief, an eager rookie cop.
