SUSIE BLAKE TO STAR AS
MISS MARPLE IN NEW DRAMA AT DARLINGTON HIPPODROME
The Mirror Crack’d
Darlington Hippodrome
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 September 2022
The award-winning Original Theatre Company are delighted to announce Miss Marple’s return to the stage in a brand new production of Rachel Wagstaff’s acclaimed adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d. The production, directed by Philip Franks, will run at Darlington Hippodrome from Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 September.
The Mirror Crack’d will star Susie Blake as Miss
Marple, with further casting to be announced.
In 1960s England, a wind of change is blowing through the land. It has even reached the sleepy village of St Mary Mead. There’s a new housing estate, which alarms the villagers as much as it intrigues them and, even more unsettling, a rich American film star has bought the manor house. Jane Marple, confined to a chair after an accident, is wondering if life has passed her by. Then there is a shocking murder, and Miss Marple must unravel a web of lies, danger and tragedy. This adaptation of Agatha Christie’s famous novel brings real emotional depth and psychological insight to a thrilling story of secrets, loss and revenge.
The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side was published in the UK in 1962 and adapted as a feature film, The Mirror Crack’d, in 1980, starring Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis. On television, adaptations of the novel have starred Joan Hickson as Miss Marple in 1992 and Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple in 2011.
Susie Blake said of the role, “Playing Miss Marple is every actor’s dream over the age of 50. To play a bright, independent, older woman is surprising and exciting for the period it was written in as well as in our society today.”
Susie Blake is best known for playing
the Continuity Announcer in Victoria
Wood: As Seen on TV, as well as her regular roles of Bev Unwin in
ITV’s Coronation Street and Hillary
Nicholson in BBC’s Mrs Brown’s Boys.
She has recently appeared in series one and two of Kate & Koji (ITV), Not
Going Out (BBC One) and The Real
Marigold Hotel (BBC One). Her films include Fierce Creatures and Nativity
3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey?!. Her theatre credits include Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall
for Cornwall), Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
(UK Tour), My Fair Lady (Grange
Festival), Grumpy Old Women Live 2 &
3, When We Are Married (West
End), Pygmalion (Chichester Festival
Theatre), Madame Morrible in Wicked
(West End) and Belinda Blair in Noises
Off (National Theatre).
Tickets:
The Mirror Crack’d runs at Darlington Hippodrome from Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 September. To book call the Box Office on 01325 405405 or visit www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk
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