Farndale Murder Mystery
by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr
When the F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S. perform their murder mystery everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. A comedy about the “joys” of amateur theatre.
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.” 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 …
This is the third in the series of Farndale Avenue Housing Estate farces (the first, Macbeth, was performed recently by Oldham Lyceum).
Sponsored by Roy Carey Windows
Cast & Crew
Phoebe (playing Clarissa Rook,Regine the French maid, Patricia Bishop,Letitia Bishop, Mr. Goodbody)…………..Alayne Whitworth
Thelma (playing Daphne Bishop,Rose Bishop) ………………………………………………….June Holmes
Audrey (playing Lady Doreen Bishop,Violet Bishop, Mrs. King, Joan Bishop) …...Verity Mann
Felicity (playing Pawn the Butler,Colonel King) …………………………………………..Loraine Reynolds
Gordon (playing Inspector O’Reilly)………………..John Tanner
Set design Sally McKee
Set construction Sally McKee, David McKee, Mandy Thackray, Richard Thackray
Stage manager Anne Tunnicliffe
Lighting David Plowright
Sound .Luke Settle
Props Siobhan Ebden, Olwen Stevenson
Costumes Verity Mann
Prompt .Ian Perks
Production Assistant Kate Deam
