Audition Information

LIVERPOOL PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS...

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S

A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED

MAY/JUNE 2010

Phil Donney (President): I am proud to announce that Season 1 of our 2010 program will be Agatha Christie’s murder mystery “A Murder is Announced”. This will be LPAE’s first foray into the murder mystery genre, and I am just dying to get this show on the road.

The play is set in the perfectly ordinary English village of Chipping Cleghorn, where the villagers are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm; Friends accept this, the only intimation."

This comes as a great surprise to Letitia Blacklock, the owner of Little Paddocks, as she has no idea what the notice means. Miss Blacklock decides to take it in her stride and prepares herself to have guests on that evening.

So, on the night the neighbors dropped by, just out of curiosity…….Then, as the clock chimes 6:30, the room goes dark. A gun explodes! A body falls! A woman screams!

When the lights come on, a body is found lying on the floor in a pool of blood--dead.

Who is the corpse? Who is the killer? And why had this murder been announced?

Miss Marple, visiting an old friend in the village, can't resist joining the intrigue, and plays her role with the local constabulary to assist in solving this mystery.

Named one of Agatha Christie's twelve "*essential books," A Murder is Announced was first published in 1950. The book was adapted for the stage by Leslie Darbon and opened in London at the Vaudeville Theatre in September of 1977.

·         Miss Marple                                                                                                                          50’s

·         Letitia Blacklock,                 lady of the house,                                                                mid 40’s – late 50’s

·         Dora Bunner,                        her fluttery childhood friend                                               mid 40’s – late 50’s

·         Patrick Simmons                 Miss Blacklock's spoiled and foolish young cousin     mid twenties

·         Julia Simmons                    Miss Blacklock's spoiled and foolish young cousin     mid twenties

·         Mitzi                                        Miss Blacklock's foreign housekeeper and cook, a young refugee in her twenties

·         Phillipa Haymes                 a young widowed paying guest                                        mid – late twenties

·         Mrs Swettenham,                elderly lady who dotes on her son                                   mid 40’s – late 50’s

·         Edmund Swettenham,       cynical young gentleman                                                   mid twenties

·         Rudi Scherz,                         Swiss extraction, the receptionist at a local spa           late twenties - early thirties

·         Inspector Craddock                                                                                                            mid 40’s – late 50’s

·         Sergeant Mellors                 a local constabulary                                                            late twenties - early thirties

Auditions begin Tuesday 2nd March at the Mt Pritchard Community Hall, with rehearsals held on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 730pm. Performances will be held in last week of May and the first week June at the Casula  Powerhouse Theatre.

Auditions can be booked by contacting the Audition Secretary at auditions@liverpoolperformingarts.com.au or phone 0434 986 496

Tickets can be soon be purchased online via the Casula Powerhouse website www.casulapowerhouse.com

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