Laurel Mill Playhouse Announces Auditions For A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED

Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main Street, Laurel, Md. will hold auditions for 5 men and 7 women on Tuesday, January 19 at 7pm and Saturday, January 23 at 2pm for this Agatha Christie mystery, A Murder is Announced. Director Mark Allen will have sides available for cold readings from the script. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Publishing Company, A Murder is Announced will run from March 12 through April 3 on Friday and Saturday evenings with two selected Sunday matinees. For more information, please contact Producer Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Character list;

Miss Jane Marple

Miss Letitia Blacklock - spinster of "beyond middle-age", former assistant to a financier

Miss Dora "Bunny" Brunner - another spinster "slightly older than Miss Blacklock", a somewhat befuddled childhood friend down on her luck

Mrs Swettenham - also "beyond middle age", a neighbor of Miss Blacklock

Julia Simmons - mid 20s, Miss Blacklock's neice

Phillipa Haymes - mid 20s, a boarder at Miss Blacklock's

Mitzi - mid 20s, Miss Blacklock's cook, middle-European

Patrick Simmons - mid 20s, Miss Blacklock's nephew

Edmund Swettenham - mid 20s, neighbor

Inspector Craddock - middle-aged

Sergeant Mellors - age undefined

Rudi Scherz - a mysterious young Swiss visitor

English accents desired for all but Mitzi and Rudi, but not required.

The announcement in the local paper states time and place of a murder to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of several occupants, temporary and permanent, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death, a determined Inspector grimly following the twists and turns, and Miss Marple on hand to provide the final solution at some risk to herself in a dramatic confrontation scene just before the final curtain. "Had the first night audience on the edge of their seats." Evening Post. "Re enter Agatha with another whodunit hit, another of her fiendishly ingenious murder mysteries." London Evening News.

 

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