Murder at the Theatre Royale: The perfect murder mystery (A Christmas Mystery, 2)

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The main house is a beautiful Victorian auditorium designed by the famous architects Charles Phipps and Frank Matcham. Director Philip Franks said, “Horror films have been my guilty pleasure since I was a morbid child. Now is the time to find out whether many years’ worth of jump scares and terrible nightmares can be put to good use. We’ll also see whether my more adult theory – that horror often puts its finger on what worries us most as a society at any given time – will also hold true.“ A summer staple at the city centre venue since 1988, the season includes a comedy thriller, a classic Agatha Christie and a suspenseful murder mystery. Sensational new staging of Agatha Christie’s world-famous thriller MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS tours exclusively to Bath The book has all the hallmarks of an excellent story. The theatre world in particular, lends itself to colourful characters, secrets and intrigue. I was also drawn to the beautiful book cover and the fact it was labelled “A Christmas Mystery”, looking forward to a seasonal escape from reality.

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To complete the line-up is Joan’s extra-marital partner Don, a hilarious character played by Stephen Fletcher. The language was overwrought and paragraphs unnecessarily wordy, and the characters' speech was stuffed with so much contemporary language - 'good eggs', 'shilly-shallying' that I felt the author was trying overly hard to cement the period setting in the reader's head. Both became very irritating as the book went on.The season will open with another world premiere, Zimbabwean writer-performer Tonderai Munyevu’s Mugabe, My Dad & Me from September 9 to 18. His high-voltage one-man show charts the rise and fall of one of the most controversial politicians of the 20 th century, Robert Mugabe, through the personal story of Tonderai’s family and his relationship with his father as he considers familial love, identity and what it means to be “home”. Now Meeks will return with his stage adaptation of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving’s 1820 tale of the Headless Horseman, from October 5 to 9, when Wendi Peters, from Coronation Street, and Bill Ward, from Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Before We Die, will lead the cast and Filipe J Carvalho will provide the stage illusions. Set in the 1930's, Murder at the Theatre Royale is great for those crime lovers who like their mysteries light with a touch of humour and set around the 20's/30's. Reporter Daphne King has been sent to do a theatre piece on the staging of A Christmas Carol at the Theatre Royale in London, however whilst she is there she witnesses a death of an actor which sets her senses tingling, our intrepid reporter starts to investigate a possible murder even though the police think otherwise. However when a theatre critic is killed the question on everyone's lips is who could be next. It is part of the zeitgeist of contemporary film and theatre that we start expecting one thing then find we are presented with quite another. If you keep an open mind you will enjoy Murder in the Dark. The play ran for around an hour and a half and there was no interval. Between each section of the play the theatre was plunged into semi darkness as the curtain was pulled down with haunting lighting making it even more atmospheric and setting the scene for more intrigue and mystery.

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Pacily directed by Philip Franks, Murder in the Dark is a well-constructed chiller that mixes jump-out-of-your-seat scares with moments of unnerving dread. Leeds company Phoenix Dance Theatre will be celebrating 40 Years Of Phoenix with a birthday programmeof work by international and award-winning choreographers, including former artistic directors and collaborators. Littered with literary references, it has some great dialogue and laugh-out-loud one-liners, including my favourite: “There didn’t used to be lesbians in Agatha Christie.” Funny, clever and dark, the play has unexpected twists to keep crime thriller fans happy. The last time that I’d watched M Poirot was a couple of weeks ago with a huge Hollywood style film production of Death on the Nile starring Kenneth Branagh as Poirot alongside a host of famous acting talent, and Russell Brand, in a production that while glitzy and big budget, just didn’t somehow hit the mark. This new production at the Theatre Royal did away with the Hollywood royalty and instead relied on a great screenplay, a perfectly cast lead and wonderfully creative scenery.I’m no new arrival to the classic mysteries of Agatha Christie and yet I still loved this wonderful version of an absolute classic.