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Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery, The

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!

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

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.

Premiere Production: The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on August 18th, 1980.
  • Casting: 1M, 4F

  • SYLVIA (playing Inspector O'Reilly)
    FELICITY (playing Pawn, a butler; Colonel King, Lady Bishop's brother-in-law)
    AUDREY (playing Lady Doreen Bishop, a widow; Violet Bishop, her spinster aunt; Mrs. King, the Colonel's wife; Joan Bishop, Lady Bishop's cousin)
    MRS. REECE (playing Clarissa Rook, Lady Bishop's sister; RĂ©gine, the French maid; Patricia Bishop, Lady Bishop's niece; Letita Bishop, her sister; Mr. Goodbody, a solicitor)
    THELMA (playing Daphne Bishop, Lady Bishop's daughter; Rose Bishop, her spinster aunt)
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    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.

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