Have you ever read or watched a murder mystery and thought about how much you would enjoy playing a different person or character? In that case, we are calling all extroverts, introverts, noisy, shy, outgoing, fun-loving actors and general dogsbodies like writers, costumers, singers, dancers, psychiatrists, etc. Please attend our first club meeting on Monday, May 12, at the Arbor Conference Center Dance Studio D at 4 p.m.
Norma Despot (Chris Hoffman) and Max Von Turdleshtoff (Duane Sundo) in “The Golf Father.”
The next murder mystery for Ashford residents will be at The Lodge at Candler Hills on Saturday, Oct. 25. In early December, we will return to Weybourne Landing with some mysterious happenings, perhaps reminiscent of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.”
I recently watched a documentary about Agatha Christie, the queen of crime writers. She was a prolific writer and is the most translated writer in the world after the Bible and Shakespeare.
In 1926, Agatha made international headlines by disappearing for 11 days. Her car was found near the precipice of an old quarry, and some clothes and identifications were still inside the vehicle, but there was no sign of Agatha. After she was discovered miles away, she could not remember what happened, and to this very day, nobody knows why she disappeared and why she could not remember a thing about those mysterious days.
Some say it was a nervous breakdown and temporary memory loss, while others believe that she contrived the entire episode as a publicity stunt. Whatever happened led to many more travels around the world, especially Egypt, where she wrote “Death on the Nile.” She wrote the most extraordinary characters, often based on people she knew and to whom we can all relate. Her stories’ underlying themes were usually “good” versus “evil.” Even in a small English village, the inhabitants are a microcosm of the world.
As Hercule Poirot suggests, a murder mystery is set to engage the brain and keep our “little grey cells” working.
For more information and bookings, please contact Lizzylieberman@gmail.com or 702-378-6300.
Author: Liz Lieberman
