Murdered To Death by Peter Gordon
Heckington Players 2013 October production was Murdered To Death by Peter Gordon.
This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie’s traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight – Bunting the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling police inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes – they’re all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house’s owner. It soon becomes clear the murderer isn’t fished yet but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will audiences die laughing first?
Cast List…
Midred – Teen Silkstone
Dorothy – Sarah Stewart
Bunting – John Drury
Colonel Charles Craddock – Matt Brown
Margaret Craddock – Nikki Kirk
Elizabeth Hartley-Trumpington – Jen Ruston
Pierre Marceau – Oliver Guilliat
Joan Maple – Helen Gordon
Constable Thompkins – Kei Bailey
Inspector Pratt – Andrew Key
Crew List…
Director – Jackie Taylor
Assistant Director – Jo Marriott
Stage Manager – Elaine Marshall
Props Mistress – Jayne Perkins
Backstage Technician – Ashley Collin
Lighting – Malcolm Billing
Sound – Mark Elsom
Front of House – Jo Keightley
Prompt – Jo Marriot
Set Construction – Mac Mclean, Malcolm Billing, Len Bridge, Geoff Stead & David Nichols