February 2009

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

a comedy by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr

Directed by Andy Rushman

Every Drama Group has experienced the horrors of what can go wrong on the night and the ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild 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”. 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.

Cast

Sylvia	Lindsay Wroe
Felicity	Maxine Dixon
Audrey	Beryl Gadd
Mrs Reece	June Brogdale
Thelma	Elaine Craven