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Productions photos coming soon! This production of The Hollow by Agatha Christie is generously sponsored by: Please contact them for all your family's dental needs: 734.663.6777 THE HOLLOW December 6-9 & 13-15 Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00pm Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2:00pm Artistic Direction: David Andrews (This video curtesy of Elisha Kranz) CAST: Henrietta Angkatell ------------------- Tricia Turek Sir Henry Angkatell, KCB -------- Mark Bernstein Lady Angkatell --------------- Liz Greaves-Hoxsie Midge Harvey --------------------- Adrienne Frank Gudgeon ------------------------------ Dennis Platte Edward Angkatell ----------------------- Nick Boyer Doris ------------------------------------ Elisha Kranz Gerda Cristow ------------------------ Amita Madan John Cristow, MD, FRCP ------------- Ken Karges Veronica Craye -------------------------- Nan Bauer Inspector Colquhoun, CID ----- Mitchell S. Gillett Detective Sergeant Penny -------- David Melcher An unhappy game of romantic follow the leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr. Cristow is at the center of the trouble: Henrietta, his mistress; Veronica, his ex mistress; and Gerda, his wife are all at The Hollow. Also visiting are Edward (who is in love with Henrietta) and Midge (who loves Edward). Veronica ardently desires to marry Cristow and succeeds in reopening their affair but is unable to get him to divorce his wife. It is not long before someone is dead! Nearly everyone has a motive and most had the opportunity. Enter Inspector Colquhoun and Sergeant Penny to solve the crime. The Times reviewed the play in its issue of June 8, 1951. The reviewer felt that a chorus who stated the suspect's motives in any stage whodunit would "spare the author trouble and the audience tedium" but went on to say that, "once the fatal shot has been fired and the police arrive to ask questions there can be nothing but admiration for the impudent skill with which she directs suspense first this way, then that, and yet contrives to let certainty arrive in due course with an effect of genuine surprise." The reviewer described the play as an "ingenious entertainment..."

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PTD Productions presents Agatha Christie's THE HOLLOW

Productions photos coming soon!

This production of The Hollow by Agatha Christie
is generously sponsored by:

Please contact them for all your family's
dental needs: 734.663.6777

THE HOLLOW
December 6-9 & 13-15
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2:00pm

Artistic Direction: David Andrews

(This video curtesy of Elisha Kranz)

CAST:
Henrietta Angkatell ------------------- Tricia Turek
Sir Henry Angkatell, KCB -------- Mark Bernstein
Lady Angkatell --------------- Liz Greaves-Hoxsie
Midge Harvey --------------------- Adrienne Frank
Gudgeon ------------------------------ Dennis Platte
Edward Angkatell ----------------------- Nick Boyer
Doris ------------------------------------ Elisha Kranz
Gerda Cristow ------------------------ Amita Madan
John Cristow, MD, FRCP ------------- Ken Karges
Veronica Craye -------------------------- Nan Bauer
Inspector Colquhoun, CID ----- Mitchell S. Gillett
Detective Sergeant Penny -------- David Melcher

An unhappy game of romantic follow the leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr. Cristow is at the center of the trouble: Henrietta, his mistress; Veronica, his ex mistress; and Gerda, his wife are all at The Hollow. Also visiting are Edward (who is in love with Henrietta) and Midge (who loves Edward). Veronica ardently desires to marry Cristow and succeeds in reopening their affair but is unable to get him to divorce his wife. It is not long before someone is dead! Nearly everyone has a motive and most had the opportunity. Enter Inspector Colquhoun and Sergeant Penny to solve the crime.

The Times reviewed the play in its issue of June 8, 1951. The reviewer felt that a chorus who stated the suspect's motives in any stage whodunit would "spare the author trouble and the audience tedium" but went on to say that, "once the fatal shot has been fired and the police arrive to ask questions there can be nothing but admiration for the impudent skill with which she directs suspense first this way, then that, and yet contrives to let certainty arrive in due course with an effect of genuine surprise." The reviewer described the play as an "ingenious entertainment..."