Death By Design

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 to Sat, 19 Oct 2024

  • Event Details
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  • Production: Death By Design
    Type of event: Performance
    Venue: Gatton Shire Hall
    52 North Street
    Gatton Q 4343
    Description: What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noël Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a weekend in an English country manor in 1932, Death by Design is a delightful and mysterious “mash-up” of two of the greatest English writers of all time.

    Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife, Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly – a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingénue, a zany modern dancer – each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it’s left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide, to solve the crime.

    Death by Design is more than homage – it’s a new classic.