THEATRE audiences delight in untangling a mystery, and playwrights such as Tom Stoppard specialise in creating threatening characters who appear to be stylish innocents! If this has piqued your interest then head along to see The Maleny Players latest production: The Real Inspector Hound.
Presented at the Maleny Playhouse, Maleny Showgrounds April 5-21, this murder mystery comedy will keep audiences guessing from the get-go.
This intriguing production sets the audience an impossible puzzle in a set made for mystery: an isolated manor on a cliff above a rocky sea with no roads out and a maze of smugglers’ paths to get in.
With a strange howling outside, the Inspector of Police drops in mysteriously (without being called) to investigate. The Inspector is named Hound, reminiscent of The Hound of the Baskervilles perhaps? This is a very odd Inspector of Police! Into a curious cluster of eccentric Christie-style characters are tossed two egocentric theatre critics and flawed human beings to suffer retribution for their own journalistic malice.
The play premieres April 5. It will show for three weeks including April 6, 7, 13, 14 and 19-21. Tickets for 7pm evening performances and 2pm matinees available via trybooking.com; also from Maleny Art Direct Gallery (cash sales only).
Good luck in untangling the mystery, and remember once discovered, not to share with later audiences! For more details phone Fleur Adamson 0409 470 822.