PRODUCTION DETAILS

 

TITLE:  The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery

PLAYWRIGHT: David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr

PERFORMANCE DATES: 6th - 8th April 2000

DIRECTOR: Ken Davison

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CAST

Mrs Reece - Barbara Hardcastle

Audrey - Jean Wall

Thelma - Pat Davison

Felicity - Nicki Clay

Gordon Pugh - Terry Brown

Mr Goodbody, a solicitor - Lee Maloney

The Inspector - Sylvia Frobisher

Gladys Knight - Lydia Gilhooley

 

SYNOPSIS

Every drama group has experienced the horrors of what can go wrong on opening night, and the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G. Dramatic Society are no different, with the possible exception that almost everything that could happen does!  

 

The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects take on a strange note at times, as the ladies present their ambitious evening's entertainment with the cunning whodunit, "Murder At Checkmate Manor."  

 

And just in case the audience should get bored there's a Film and Fashion Show and Murder Mystery Quiz, complete with a Prize!

 

The crunch comes in the denouement when the "murderer", about to be revealed, has to rush home to bandage up an injured daughter.  

 

But Mrs. Reece, doyenne of the group, rises above the slings and arrows of outrageous dramatics to save the situation and provide the final inventive twist.