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NOW the nights are drawing in, there's nothing better than a whodunnit murder mystery to warm the blood.

For their autumn production, the Bartholomew Players have chosen another Simon Brett comedy thriller, Murder in Play, which is really a play within a play. This is why two of the actors in the photo are in modern dress, and the rest appear to be staying in a country house of yesteryear.

Simon Brett's hilarious text employs a play-within-a-play device, which ruthlessly satirizes the politics of the inept theatre company. In true Brett style, there are numerous red herrings scattered through the play to keep the audience guessing until that final moment of action.

It's player Jim McArthur who takes the role of director Boris Smokensky, whose budget production of Murder at Priorswell Manor is looking decidedly shaky. It seems that the cast he has gathered together are far more interested in their egos than the play - then life imitates art, when his wife, Renee (played by Trish Thompson) is murdered on stage. Since she was as popular as a fox in a chicken-house, the question was not so much 'Who dun it?' as 'Who didn't'. Perhaps the murderer is Ginette (played by Ellina Mithailova), who after all is Boris's pretty, if somewhat dippy, mistress.

Or perhaps it was Boris himself, though it seems unlikely that he would jeopardize his own production by killing one of the central characters before the final curtain goes down. The finger of suspicion could also fall on Pat, the stage manager, played by Margaret Robinson whose relationship with Boris is particularly stormy at times.

To find out exactly 'whodunnit', you need to get your tickets for Murder in Play, to be staged at at Eynsham village hall at 7.45pm on Wednesday, November 28, to November 30.

Tickets are available at the door,or from Evenlode DIY, High Street, Eynsham.

1:48pm Tuesday 13th November 2007

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