Owen Sound’s Roxy Theatre is presenting the newest installation of its Roxy at Home series, Gas Head Willy.
From now until February 3rd at 11:59 pm, the performance will be available on demand.
A release from the theatre says, Gas Head Willy is a fast-paced piece of detective fiction about Owen Sound’s prohibition-era boozers, bootleggers and brawlers.
Back in 2017, this live radio-style broadcast, included onstage foley artists creating non-stop sound effects.
Gas Head Willy was local author Richard Thomas’ first novel.
Set in 1921, Gas Head Willy, who is the son of an Owen Sound millionaire goes missing and Private Investigator D.B. Murphy has been hired to find him.
Murphy learns about the missing war veteran’s secret life and is plunged into a prohibition-era underworld of “booze cans and swamp whiskey” that takes him from Owen Sound to Mudtown to Balaclava.
Bill Murphy, long time Owen Sound Little Theatre member, adapted the novel Gas Head Willy into the stage play Gas Head Willy.
With close to 50 characters, Richard Thomas reads the part of DB Murphy, while Bill Murphy voices Gas Head Willy and other characters, supported by other cast members. Musician Max Clark plays piano throughout the show.
