Snowed Under

We actually don't have snow here but we are incredibly busy.The process of settling into a new house has meant that while we're back online, normal service is not fully restored at Murdering The Text.

For the time being, we can still only offer emailed copies until our office is properly set up. We also can't change the address on our website at the moment so if you would like to send us a cheque in the post, please contact us at fiona@murderingthetext.co.uk for our new address.

Development of our new website is on hold, probably until the spring and we've been unable to send out the last couple of newsletters too.

Thank you for your patience and all the best for a wonderful new year.

Festive Wishes from Murdering the Text

Christmas is almost here.

All the best for a wonderful day and a prosperous new year.

We are moving!

In the run up to Christmas, Murdering The Text will be virtually offline (except for occasional visits to McDonalds to use their free wifi internet connection) while we move house.If you'd like to purchase a script in December, we can only provide emailed copies until the new year when our office will be fully unpacked. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Happy Halloween

Have a spooky one.

The Heath Players

We have a new entry on our list of amateur dramatic groups available for hire. The wonderful Heath Players cover the West Kent area but would consider East Kent and East Sussex. You can contact them through their chairman, Vanessa Johnson on vanessa_johnson61@hotmail.com or their secretary, Peter Coombs on coombspeter@hotmail.com. Have a look at their website to get a taste for their shows.

Our 'Crowning Glory' is complete

Our latest script 'Crowning Glory' is now finished. It's taken us the summer (plus a few weeks in autumn) and a whole array of historical research (rationing, the financial state of the UK in the 1950s, tea trolleys) to complete this historical script but the end result is a mystery play (no murder in this one) which will hopefully be as much fun to perform as it has been to pen.

Based in 1953 around the coronation celebrations, 'Crowning Glory' sees the local coronation carnival steering committee join with Lord and Lady Smythe-Jones to produce a day that nobody will forget.

Written for the Purley Players, this play is an ideal production for any group who have a whole host of vintage props and costumes to hand.

We'll let you have details of the Purley Players production nearer the time.

Happy Birthday Agatha

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Our wonderful lady of murder, mystery and mayhem would have been 121 years old today. Born in 1890 in Torquay, England, she was a prolific writer (66 novels plus numerous short story collections and plays).





I wonder what she would have thought if she had lived to see how popular her fiction became and still is.

Happy Birthday, Agatha - thank you for the inspiration.