"...A welcome example of what happens when the performer and crew get it right." - Arts Hub
"Superbly executed." - BEAT Magazine
After taking a year off in 2010, SNAFU Theatre is back with their fabulous new production, Murder at Warrabah House.
Both homage to and dark departure from the traditional Agatha Christie murder mystery, this antipodean re-imagining of the classic tale of death at a country house turns the crime genre upside down in more ways than one.
The play boasts a cast of intriguing characters, all bought to life by phenomenally talented Samantha Hill, and all bound together in a cunning and unexpected narrative that will keep you guessing to the very end.
Dates: 24, 25, 26 February and 3, 4, 5 March
Tickets: $15/$10 full/conc
Venue: Sutdio 246: Rear of 246a Sydney Road, Brunswick, entry via Merri St.
To Book, email snafutheatre@gmail.com or call 0421 754 817
Real Life Robbery at Theatre Murder Mystery!
A dramatic break-in occurred on Saturday night at Studio 246, the Brunswick venue for SNAFU Theatre’s latest production Murder at Warrabah House. Ironically the play itself centres around a theft, albeit of a necklace from a wealthy family in the Victorian countryside, rather than cash from an independent theatre venue down a Brunswick back alley. Says producer May Jasper, “It’s a very strange feeling. I’ve been describing the show to people for weeks as ‘a dark tale of theft, betrayal, madness and murder’. We haven’t had the other three yet...perhaps it’s only a matter of time.”
The break in occurred at around 11pm on Saturday night, after the evening’s performance had finished and all the SNAFU Theatre staff had left the building. The thieves were surprised in the act by venue owner Leon Van De Graaff and fled the scene. Luckily for Leon, and for SNAFU, the burglars were not the most organised of criminals. Says director Sam Wilson “We had seen some suspicious characters lurking about, and so we took the day’s takings off the premises. In the end the only thing that was stolen was a plastic money box in the shape of a platypus, which we had out on the bar for people who wanted to donate money for our upcoming trip to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I think there was only about twenty dollars in there”.
Because so little was stolen, and the damage to the venue was so minimal, production staff feel confident that the remaining three performances of the Melbourne Season (on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of March, starting at 730pm) will go ahead as planned. If you want to catch Murder at Warrabah House before it leaves the country, or before either betrayal, madness or murder set in, you can book tickets by calling the SNAFU booking line 0412754817 or emailing snafutheatre@gmail.com.
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