Arts & Entertainment

Belmont Dramatic Spoofs Christie in Spring Production

"Agatha Christie Made Me Do It" playing Friday through Sunday at Belmont Town Hall.

The Belmont Dramatic Club, the nation's second oldest continuously operating and performing community theatre group, presents “Agatha Christie Made Me Do It,” a funny three-act audience participation mystery-play by Eddie Cope.

Performances are at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 with a matinee at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at Belmont Town Hall, at the corner of Concord Avenue and Pleasant Street. 

Directed by Francine Davis, the spoof of murder-mysteries follows Police Officer Hootspah who, tired of being a cop, decides that the quickest way to riches and a life of ease is to write a murder-mystery play.

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Using Agatha Christie’s methods as his model, he starts out. Despite his ineptness for the task at hand and the fact that his characters sometimes take over, Hootspah manages to put together a play that is both funny and suspenseful. He blithely ignores a number of facts of life and law in developing his plot, but this doesn’t deter him; he’d put it down to “poetic license,” if he knew the term.

Hootspah’s play revolves around Monte Brainard, a wealthy young man, who wakes up from two days of “sleeping it off” to discover that he now has two wives and a fiancé, has assaulted his butler, and trashed a nightclub. He doesn’t remember any of this, or so he says. Meanwhile, a murder has been committed. Who did it? And why does the corpse keep disappearing ... and where?

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The production is produced by arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Ill. CherylAnn Welch is producing this production for the BDC.

Reservations & Tickets:

• $18 per person for non-member adults.

• $15 per person for non-member Seniors (65+) and Youths (under 18).

• $15 per person for Groups of 10 or more non-members attending the same performance who reserve in advance.

General admission tickets will be sold at the Box Office. Box office opens one hour prior to each performance. Be there early for the best seats!


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