Random Acts is the company's name and murder is its game.
Tonight performers from Random Acts will present the murder mystery The Vampire Whisperer on a train as it weaves through the hills of Nelsonville.
The play begins with the expiration of a 100-year treaty between vampires and humans and marital problems between a vampire and his wife, said Grant Walker, lead actor in the company's production.
She's been trying to have me exterminated for 100 years and could not because of the treaty with mankind and vampire kind
said Walker, so there's some intrigue that goes along with it.
Random Acts, founded by Lynda Whiting and her husband David Fioritto, is a descriptive name as the company performs over 50 different types of mysteries and at venues ranging from ballrooms to zoos across America.
Walker said that even though the company performs in such a variety of places, he has never found a location strange.
I don't look at places as weird I look at it as a challenge. A part of what we do as a troupe is to adapt he said.
The Toledo-based company employs more than 30 people and was started after Whiting and composer, Fioritto, met working for another murder mystery. After that company folded in 1999, the duo took over, said Whiting, who writes all of the mysteries that the company performs.
Following work for various murder mystery companies, Whiting always wanted to do a better job by combining music and comedy with the shows.
A lot of the scripts in the murder mystery business are kind of one dimensional
Whiting said. We knew we could do a better job because we were adding music.
The variety of plays can occasionally cause confusion for the actors. Tom Kleinert, an actor for the company, said it's easy to get confused when performing more than one show a day that has multiple versions.
There are days when we are doing two or three shows a day and you have to remember what costume to put on
Kleinert said.
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Adam and Angela Rough are part of the acting troupe Random Acts. They will be performing in the show [i]The Vampire Whisperer[/i], which runs tonight, tomorrow and Oct. 29 through 31 in Nelsonville.
