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Curtain Up on Murder

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  5w, 3m

Bettine Manktelow

An amateur drama company is rehearsing in the theatre at the end of the pier. Storms
rage overhead and the doors are locked — they are trapped! Th en a mysterious, ghostly
presence passes across the stage, and when the Assistant Stage Manager falls to certain
death through a trapdoor, the remaining actors are thrown into disarray. Their panic
increases when one of the actresses is poisoned and it becomes evident that a murderer
is in their midst ...

Curtain Up on Murder

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller

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An amateur drama company is rehearsing in the theatre at the end of the pier. Storms rage overhead and the doors are locked — they are trapped! Th en a mysterious, ghostly presence passes across the stage, and when the Assistant Stage Manager falls to certain death through a trapdoor, the remaining actors are thrown into disarray. Their panic increases when one of the actresses is poisoned and it becomes evident that a murderer is in their midst ...
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Ages of Men (35, 40, elderly), Ages of Women (18, 20, 28, 40, 50s)

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Bettine Manktelow

Bettine Manktelow
Bettine Manktelow was born Bettine Stratton in Gillingham in Kent, and is the middle daughter of three.She became stage-struck at an early age andworked in a repertory company atChatham Theatre Royalat the age of sixteen as an assistant stage-manager, learning stage craft fro ...
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