A Murder is Announced

Agatha Christie plays are always popular with both audiences and societies, as was this.  However, they are difficult to do successfully because of the one static set and the fact that much of the dialogue takes place sitting down.  However, the director, Nicola Gilbert, had worked well with the cast to provide enough ‘natural’  movement to add extra interest ensuring the audience was fully engaged with the dialogue within the action of the story. 

One of the joys of a Theydon play has always been its set and this was no exception.  This was a good comfortable, secure set, carefully furnished with well chosen props keeping within the period of the play.  The positioning of the furniture ensured good grouping of the actors. The costumes were very well considered, and very much suited to the characters wearing them.

This production had a strong cast, under the keen direction of Nicola Gilbert and the interaction between them enabled the story to be told with the required amount of red-herrings and misdirection.

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