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A funny way to die - apparently
11:22am Wednesday 21st November 2007
MURDER and comedy don't often go together but that's what awaits audiences at the New Empire Theatre, Southend, this week.
From Thursday until Saturday, the East Essex Players will present Agatha Christie spoof Murdered to Death.
The story is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of comic characters that include Bunting the butler, an English Colonel with the pre-requisite stiff upper lip, a shady French art dealer and his moll, a bumbling police inspector and a well meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes.
The audience will be given the opportunity to guess whodunnit with each performance's winner receiving a bottle of wine.
"This is the first of three plays in the series written by Peter Gordon and if the audience enjoys this one then we may consider doing another in 2009," says society chairman Hazel Latcham.
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