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BY LANISE WAITES Rappahannock News Special Writer
Show me a country manor with no skeletons in the closet, and I’ll show you a place insignificant in either a theatric or a literary context.
Would we remember Wuthering Heights if Heathcliff and Catherine had been representative of the pastoral life? And .Jane Evre-would she be remembered today if Mr. Rochester had said, “Will you be my wife?”, she had said, “yes", and there had been no mention of the poor, mad thing upstairs?
If all had been as it first appeared at Audely Court, the audience at Rappahannock High School last weekend would have seen nothing more than a parlour farce, rather than a fine piece of musical melodrama with redeeming social implications. Luckily for us, skeletons-inthe-closet aplenty were in evidence as "Lady Audely's Secret" was presented to an attentive and appreciative audience. The play was adopted from the IStiO novel by Elizabeth Braddon and produced at the high school under the direction of Don Bomberger. It was an excellent choice.
What with the dissolute Luke, the good, kind and true Phoebe, the loyal septugenarian Sir Michael, his cavalier and gallant nephew Robert, the handsome daughter Alicia. Robert’s friend George and the un
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