Murdered to Death by Peter Gordon.
16th - 19th July 2008 at The Tynemouth Priory Theatre.
Directed by Chris Johnson.
'Murdered to Death' by Peter Gordon is a hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie style 'whodunnits'. The play is set in a country house in the 1930's, where the guests are arriving for dinner. Someone gets murdered - but why? The house is full of suspicious characters, including Bunting the faithless butler, Dorothy the disgruntled spinster niece of the lady of the manor, an English Colonel Charles Craddock with prerequisite stiff upper lip, his pretentious wife Margaret, Pierre a shady French art dealer and his glamorous accomplice Elizabeth.
All the characters are here and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house's owner.The solving of the crime is left to the bumbling and inept Inspector Pratt, his side-kick the exasperated Constable Thompkins, and the local sleuth Miss Maple - who allegedly seems to attract murder wherever she goes! Will the murderer be unmasked before tragedy strikes again? 
What happened to the Colonel's missing revolver? Who is leading a double life? What other secrets can be unearthed before the final curtain?
The twists and turns of the plot will keep you guessing, and the colourful characters will guarantee to have you laughing out loud!
It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murdrer be 
unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will audiences die laughing first?