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Throughout the years audiences (whether for theatre, cinema, radio or television) have loved a good old-fashioned murder mystery. At the Little Theatre Gateshead such plays have proved to be firm favourites. Our March offering comes from an author new to our audiences but with strong credentials having written more than thirty published plays, many of them being of this genre. Fred Carmichael was particularly successful with "Out of Sight..Out of Murder" as it was a prize winner when first produced in America where it is set. The location is a gloomy old mansion in Vermont Gothic in style and reminiscent of the works of Edgar Allen Poe or of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' but the mood of the play is much lighter in tone with many comic twists as the hero (struggling writer Peter Knight) finds that the creatures of his imagination are in fact characters with lives of their own! And he is strangely attracted to the beautiful young ingenue of the play. Unfortunately he is real whilst she, despite her apparent substance is fictional. Come and see how he resolves his problems with her and with the other players in this entertaining play! |
