Final production for the year

Woy Woy Little Theatre's final production of the 2005 season, The Unexpected Guest, will be staged from Friday, October 21.

Theatre publicity officer Ms Jan Taylor said that, to everyone's surprise, it had been the first Agatha Christie play produced by the group in its more than 40 year history.

"Agatha Christie is one of the world's most popular authors and her plays, usually adaptations of her popular books, are regularly performed by both professional and amateur theatres everywhere," Ms Taylor said.

"Whilst no-one can explain the absence of a Christie whodunit from the Little Theatre's repertoire, the response to news of the inclusion in the 2005 program has brought a very positive response."

Woy Woy Little Theatre president Ms Barbara Hickey said the response had been amazing.

"As soon as The Unexpected Guest was announced in our subscription brochure earlier this year, we received some the largest block bookings WWLT has ever experienced".

Director Mr John Hickey said The Unexpected Guest was one of Dame Agatha's most popular plays and one of the few she wrote specifically for the stage.

"This is what makes it such a rewarding play of the murder mystery genre for actors," said Mr Hickey.

"Rather than focussing on a celebrity sleuth such as Poirot or Miss Marple, the mystery unravels and the clues emerge through the investigation of the complex relationships of those involved."

The play is being staged at the Peninsula Theatre, at the corner of Ocean Beach and McMasters Rds, Woy Woy, at 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays, October 21, 22, 28 and 29 and November 4 and 5, and at matinees at 2pm on Sundays, October 23 and 29 and November 6.

A Saturday matinee will be held on November 5.

The Box Office opens on October 10 and can be contacted between 10am and 2pm Monday to Friday on 4344 4737.

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