Agatha Christie's - A Murder is Announced - Auditions

8 February 2010 LIVERPOOL PERFORMING ARTS IS CALLING FOR AUDITIONEES TO... AGATHA CHRISTIE'S A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED MAY/JUNE 2010 The Liverpool Performing Arts Ensemble is proud to announce that the first show 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 we are 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. Auditions begin Tuesday 2nd March at the Mt Pritchard Community Hall, with rehearsals held on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7.30pm. 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 0434 986 496 or visit www.liverpoolperformingarts.com.au for more information Tickets will be available for purchase online via the Casula Powerhouse website www.casulapowerhouse.com shortly. Character list is as follows: • 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 cousinmid 20’s • Julia Simmons Miss Blacklock's spoiled and foolish young cousin mid 20’s • Mitzi Miss Blacklock's foreign housekeeper, young refugee mid 20’s • Phillipa Haymes a young widowed paying guest mid – late 20’s • Mrs Swettenham elderly lady who dotes on her son mid 40’s – late 50’s • Edmund Swettenham cynical young gentleman mid 20’s • Rudi Scherz Swiss extraction, the receptionist at a local spalate 20’s - early 30’s • Inspector Craddock mid 40’s – late 50’s • Sergeant Mellors a local constabulary late 20’s – 30’s