Performers Needed for Theatre Audition "Dial M for Murder"
Performers needed for "Dial M for Murder" play. Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: Tony and Margot Wendice have had a fractious marriage for many years, resulting in Margo’s affair with Max Halliday, an American crime writer. However, when the affair ended and Tony retired from his professional tennis career, the couple reunited and rekindled their love…or have they? In this well-known suspense thriller, Tony pursues the perfect crime. He married Margot for her money and now, after finding out about her affair, he plans to murder her for exactly the same reason. Although he initially thinks about killing her himself, Tony decides to hire an old university acquaintance and cunning criminal, Captain Lesgate, to do the dirty work for him. Despite Tony’s meticulous planning, the attempted murder goes awry and Lesgate is killed, while Margot survives. With a little quick-thinking and a lot of deceit, Tony manipulates Scotland Yard into believing that his wife was being blackmailed by Lesgate and killed him to protect her reputation. However, thanks to the determination of Max Halliday to prove his ex-lover’s innocence and the experience of Inspector Hubbard, Tony soon becomes wrapped up in his own web of lies and his guilt is exposed. Additional info: Performance Dates: October 17-26. If interested, please apply.
5 roles
Tony Wendice is a tennis star with a sagging career, the husband of a woman, Margo, who has ceased to love him in favor of another man. Tony, who is revealed to be plotting his wife’s murder, is the living embodiment of calm, cool, and collected. His lack of passion when contemplating his wife’s murder suggests he may have sociopathic tendencies. In addition to being levelheaded, Tony is subtly manipulative, as well as likable, able to misdirect individuals to suit his own purposes.
Margo is the protagonist of “Dial M”, who although quick witted and intelligent, is totally unaware that her husband is planning to kill her. Although it is revealed early on that Margo is having an extra-marital affair, Margo is kind, good natured, and graceful. She is also revealed to be resourceful when she is attacked, saving her own life by stabbing her attacker with a pair of scissors.
Mark Halliday, a mystery writer, is Margo’s lover and the unwitting cause of Tony’s plot against his wife. Although initially in the dark as to Tony’s intentions, Mark’s unwavering faith in Margo leads him to begin suspecting Tony’s plot against Margo. It is Mark who provides some of the key pieces for the Inspector’s case against Tony.
Must be able to do British accent. Inspector Hubbard is the classic British detective who is much sharper than he first appears. It is the Inspector who first sees through Tony’s feigned innocence and begins to deduce the conspiracy the man has concocted. The Inspector is depicted as a very “by the book” police officer, occasionally showing brief glimpses of his true good natured character.
As the viewer is led to sympathize with Tony to a slight degree, Lesgate is arguably the only true villain of the film. Lesgate is a crook and con man through and through, willing to murder a woman he doesn’t know for money. Though he possesses a certain level of shrewdness, he is no match for the calculating Tony who easily coerces him into killing his wife for him, providing Tony with a perfect alibi.
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