Upcoming performances

A Hair-Raising Halloween: A murder mystery by Lesley Gunn

31 October 2024 at 7.00pm in the Reading Room, Ovingham

Our next performance will be a spook-tacular Halloween-special murder mystery, for one night only, along with a traditional peas-and-pie supper.

It is Halloween. A small group of dead and undead creatures who live together in a mansion owned by Victor the Vampire decide that this night will be a fa-boo-lous night to join a crowd of unsuspecting humans at a Halloween party. As they get set for a fang-tastic time, murder is the last thing on their mind.

But all is not well among the seemingly cozy group, and as they prepare for the evening the improbable happens – one of them is re-dead, this time permanently. Grave secrets begin to emerge as Victor works to dig out the truth behind the murder, and they soon require the intervention of a very human police officer, Inspector De’Ath.

Will the dead-icated investigation of Inspector De’Ath re-soul-ve the mystery? Join us on the 31st of October at the Reading Room to find out – and to see if your spook-ulations can unravel the ghastly truth behind the evening’s mysterious happenings.

Programme

As with our previous murder mysteries, the play will be performed as a whodunnit. The play has three acts. There will be a break after the first and second acts, to give you time for discussion around clues and to complete answer forms. The evening will also include an optional pie and peas supper served in the first break, with dessert served in the second break.

There will be prizes for the funniest answer as well as the correct answer, so let your imagination fly even if you don’t have a ghost of an idea witch of the characters is responsible for the dark and dirty deeds…

Tickets

The performance is to raise funds for the Minerva Centre in Hexham, an organisation which works to help those with different learning abilities realise their full potential as individuals by providing craft, design and general art training. All profits from the evening will be donated to the Centre.

We will be putting one production only at 7.00pm on 31 October 2024. Tickets cost £15 with food and £10 without food. The food will include two courses: pie and peas served in the first break, and dessert served in the second break.

Tickets can be ordered using the form below, with payment made at the door on the day of the performance. Please use the drop-down list to select the number of tickets of each type you want, and click on ‘Add to cart’ next to each ticket type. If you then click on ‘Cart’, there is a very simple check-out process.

You will receive email confirmation of your order. They may end up in your spam folder, so please check there as well. If you have any questions, please contact us at tickets@ovinghamdrama.org.uk.

Thursday, 31 October 2024