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Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries

Sat 19 Jun - Sun 20 Jun 2010

Let your imagination run wild as a group of top Melbourne Theatre Company and Australian screen actors recreate the pre-television days using recently rediscovered radio scripts by Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is chiefly remembered for her 78 detective novels. Her work with these novels, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, have given her the title the ‘Queen of Crime’ and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.

The Lux Radio Theatre actors play a wide range of roles, perform the soap commercials and do the live sound effects as actors did during live audience broadcasts generations ago.

The show features Beverley Dunn, a veteran of radio, who has also been appearing with the Melbourne Theatre Company since its inception. Also in the cast is Simon Russell, a regular on the “Thank God you’re Here” television series, Knockabout Theatre Company founder Rosalind Mackay and two TDK/ National Library Audio Book Award winners James Wright and Jenny Seedsman.

Director Don Mackay recently staged national tours of The Carer with the late Bud Tingwell and The Book Club with Amanda Muggleton. He produced television and ABC radio drama and was Executive Director of the Victorian Arts Council (now RAV).

“Audiences really enjoy being in on the joke” director Don Mackay says “the actors run on gravel, blow train whistles and suggest all kinds of unlikely locations while acting vigorously in front of a microphone. Dame Agatha still has a big following and these radio plays are every bit as intriguing as her recently revived Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot stories on television.”

Cost - from $30 per person.

To book tickets please visit www.extixdirect.com