DeRidder’s Impromptu Players’ 2011 season continues with “Murder or the Rerun” by Fred Carmichael. Take an angry ghost, five high-strung Hollywood personalities, a stolen movie script and one crazy angel that loves to eat and you have the makings of a witty yet suspenseful evening at a lodge in the mountains.

The play begins with Jane, an Oscar-winning screen writer, who is dead at the bottom of the stairs in a Vermont ski lodge. Her four friends and husband said she fell. "I was pushed!" she said as her ghost rises. Aided by Kitty, a rather wanton adviser from "up there," Jane is brought ahead to the present, three years after the murder, where the same group is gathered. They are all famous film makers with an intense hate/love relationship; Jane's husband who has married an ambitious ingenue, a heading for middle age leading lady, an arrogant director, and Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist. The five suspects join together to keep the possible murder quiet for reasons of their own but their relationship busts apart with their mutual distrust. Woven through the suspense in humorous, acidic and revealing comedy is an extraordinary whodunit with a surprise ending when the murderer is revealed.

The dates for performances are May 6-8 and May 13-14 at the Wooten Theater. Dinner performances will be May 6 and 14 and cost $20 for adults and $15 for students. All other tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students.

All performances will begin at 7 p.m. except the May 8 performance which will begin at 2 p.m. Perfomances include a travel raffle. Purchase a $5 raffle ticket for your chance to win two $500 travel vouchers redeemable through the First Class Travel Agency. Reservations for dinner performances are needed. To make your reservation call Anna Wiggins at (337) 462-2751.