Intriguing new Rondo show

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| Nick Dalton

FOUR Days in Dallas is one of this year’s highly anticipated upcoming productions at the Rondo Theatre.

FNQ playwright Ken Cotterill, who penned the acclaimed ‘Petrograd Express’ (2021), has delivered another piece of historical drama, directed by John Hughes and Matt O’Connor.

Mr O’Connor said the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was the “most notorious political murder of the 20th century”.

“From the moment of the fatal shooting, the popular young leader’s death was thought by some to have been the result of a conspiracy rather than the act of a lone gunmen,” he said.

“Sixty years later, more than half of Americans still believe this to be the case.”

Mr O’Connor said the action revolved around the two main protagonists associated with the 1963 assassination.

“Act one focuses on the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and offers a ‘fly on the wall’ view of what might have transpired when FBI agents interrogated Oswald after the shooting,” he said.

“Act two takes the audience to the seedy underworld of the Carousel Club, owned by Dallas identity Jack Ruby, and follows the drama unfolding in the shadows of this historic moment.”

The production features many familiar faces to Cairns audiences: Mark Chivers (FBI agent), Mara Turner (FBI agent), Matt O’Connor (Lee Harvey Oswald), Ola Adamczyk (Marina), Sa- rah Moore (Jada), Bec Martin (Karen), Adrian Norman (Joe), James Mousa (Jack).

“So come join us in our search for the truth of what really occurred over those fateful ‘Four Days in Dallas,” said Mr O’Connor.

Tickets are on sale through the Ron- do website www.therondo.com.au or by calling Last Call Ticketing on 0415 822 333. Show Times: April 28 to May 6, 105-minute running time (plus inter- val). All shows are at 7.30pm on every night except Monday, May 1 when there is no show. There is a matinee at 2pm on Sunday, April 30.