A Murder Has Been Announced

by Agatha Christie (Adapted by Leslie Darbon)     Nov 2024

Cast:

Julia Simmonds – Rachel Tranter                 Miss Blacklock (Letty) – Liz Martin

Dora Bunner (Bunny) – Maria Hiscock         Patrick Simmonds – Will Haywood

Mitzi – Angel Johnson                                  Miss Marple – Susan Pearson

Philippa Haymes – Sarah Cousens               Mrs Swettenham – Sarah Franks

Edmund Swettenham – Matt Hemmings      Rudi Scherz – Cyrille Rey

Inspector Craddock – Richard Wilde           Sgt. Mellors – Tom Freegard

Directed by Karen Evans

An announcement in The Chipping Cleghorn Gazette states that a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house, Little Paddocks this evening!

The victim turns out to be not one of the house’s several occupants, 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 just before the final curtain.