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Audience with Murder

"Audience with Murder is a chameleon of a thriller... packed to the gunwales with guile, chutzpah and humour. Catch it if you can."

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Mystery/Thriller
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Gun Shots, Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes
This intriguing and multi-layered, witty thriller is full of unexpected twists. A Russian doll of a play, it moves from a seemingly innocuous domestic play reading, through a murder mystery in the classic style, to a final terrifying and violent climax.
REVIEWS:

"It is no accident that the Jermyn Street playbill for this comedy thriller is free of all descriptive matter, save for a photograph of the play script... To offer more could spoil the surprise that, with a string of startling denouements, utterly confounds audience expectations..."

 The Stage

"This was the best theatre we saw on the Fringe this year."

 Edinburgh - Your Voice

"Audience with Murder is a chameleon of a thriller... packed to the gunwales with guile, chutzpah and humour. Catch it if you can."

 EdinburghGuide.com

"Exquisitely plotted... An evening of taut, suspenseful entertainment, shot through with the kind of dark humour that helps to ramp up the tension."

 Ilford Recorder

"A stylish thriller in the tradition of Deathtrap and Sleuth."

 Pewter Plough Playhouse, Cambria, California

Premiere Production: It was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004 and subsequently presented to critical acclaim at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2006.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Notes: Plus 1 male voice

  • GEORGE - an actor, aged fifty-five, playing GERALD, ALAN and VERNON
    SALLY - an actress, aged fifty-five, playing SUE and VIVIENNE
    KIM - an actress, aged twenty-five, playing HANNAH, KELLY and SIMONE
    CHARLES - an actor, aged twenty-five, playing SEBASTIAN, DEAN, McTAVISH and MATT
    KEN WHEELWRIGHT - a theatre producer, voice only

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    This intriguing and multi-layered, witty thriller is full of unexpected twists. A Russian doll of a play, it moves from a seemingly innocuous domestic play reading, through a murder mystery in the classic style, to a final terrifying and violent climax.

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