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Sleuth is a deadly serious game in two acts by Anthony Shaffer and directed by Lillian Harrington.

 

Auditions will be held on Tuesday March 16th at 7:30pm at Sandgate Town Hall. << Audition Conditions >>

 

What do you get when you take one eccentric detective novelist, add in his wife's lover, stir in a cocktail or two, blend in a team of intrepid investigators, top it off with a dangerous proposition and mix it all together in an English manor house? One of the most deviously clever thrillers ever concocted. Plots, counterplots, and double crosses are unleashed as rivals play out deadly games in a tangled web of intrigue.

The middle aged Andrew Wyke, a successful author of English country house murder mysteries, is an obsessive player of games, games of deductive logic, inductive logic, semantics, mathematics, hypnosis, and prestidigitation. Milo Tindle, the young lover of Andrew's wife Marguerite, has cautiously accepted an invitation by Andrew to his house...

 

Performances		May 7th, 8th, 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd 2010
		Matinee on May 16th (Sunday)

 

Andrew Wyke	male age 30 to 60
Milo Tindle	male age 30 to 60
Inspector Dobbler	male age 30 to 60
Det. Sgnt. Tarrant	male or female age 30 to 60
PC Higgs	male or female age 20 to 30