Time/Date: 7:00 pm – Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Location: Lounge at Bedford Players Community Theatre (in All Saints Anglican Church), 1408 Bedford Highway, Bedford
Come join fellow theatre-lovers for a fun evening as we read the play Write Me a Murder by Frederick Knott. Bedford Players’ play reads are an informal, fun gathering where everyone is welcome.
This is not an audition; there is no cost or obligation to participate. The event is open to everyone interested in reading this script as a group in a social setting.
Come meet some people interested in theatre. Have a laugh. Have a chat. Hear, or be part of reading, the play.
Rodingham Manor is the stately home of Clive and David Rodingham, two brothers who inherit the family fortune upon the death of their father. Soon after his death, the brothers meet Charles and Julie Sturrock, a businessman and his wife, who is a would-be thriller writer. David is also a writer whose strength is developing plots. As Sturrock is anxious to involve David in property deals, he encourages him to co-author a murder story with Julie. It isn’t long before Julie and David, with what seems to be unintentional help from Sturrock, dream up the perfect crime. Sturrock’s motives are less than certain, and when Clive sells Rodingham Manor to Sturrock and leaves for America and an heiress, the plot thickens until every twist and turn leads to an intricate maze of clues. But who is double-crossing whom?
From the author of Dial M for Murder and Wait Until Dark comes one of the most ingenious thrillers ever written. It was first produced on Broadway in the 1960s.
