1984

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A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie Adapted for the stage by Leslie Darbon Directed by Percy Hodgson

	Cast
	Julia Simmons	Deborah Hunt
	Letitia Blacklock	Carol Ardley
	Dora Bunner	Joan French
	Patrick Simmons	Cliff Mewett
	Mitzi	Anna Randle-Stewart
	Miss Marple	Hilda Moore
	Phillipa Haymes	Celia Hodgson
	Mrs. Swettenham	Phyllis Ardley
	Edmund Swettenham	Ian Coupland
	Rudi Scherz	John Arkle
	Inspector Craddock	Bert Moore
	Sergeant Mellors	Percy Hodgson
	The action takes place in two drawing-rooms in an early Victorian house in Chipping Cleghorn which have been made into one room. We join the story on Friday the 13th. As for the period - the script defines it as "Agatha Christie time".

	I am grateful to Joy Wren for donating a copy of the programme for this play. It was, until recently, one of the few gaps in the Fairlight Players archive. This has enabled us to identify the whole cast, several of whom had already been named either by long-standing members, or from the information given in the review (below) which appeared in the local newspaper.