Auditions – “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery”

“The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery”

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by by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr

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Production dates : January 7, 8, 9 & 10 and Matinee

Directed by : Tony Brownings

Produced by  : Dan Dryer

Tony is a very experienced director and his resume with Wick Theatre is 13 directed or co-directed productions that include Macbeth, ‘Allo ‘Allo, Abigail’s Party – awarded the 2008/2009 – NODA South East Region – District 1 – Drama – Accolade of Excellence, and Noises Off winner of the same award for the following year. His most recent direction was the three hander The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) which was awarded the The Arthur Churchill Award for Excellence at the 2022 BHAC Full Length Drama Competition

You do not need to be a member of the company to audition, but if cast then you will be asked to join and pay a membership fee.

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.

Director’s piece