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Butter in a Lordly Dish

  • Agatha Christie
  • Short Play, Melodrama, 1940s / WWII
  • 3M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573116872

A dark and gruesome one-act radio play for live performance.

  • Short Play
  • Melodrama
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Sir Luke Enderby, eminent prosecution barrister and seasoned womaniser, bites off more than he can chew, when the case of a serial killer comes back to haunt him. A tense one-act thriller that contains one of Christie's most gruesome murders.

Part of the live radio triple bill Murder in the Studio which also comprises Yellow Iris and Personal Call.

REVIEWS:

"The bloodcurdling scream of a dying man in one of Agatha Christie's most gruesome murder plots."

 Jack Malvern, The Times

  • Casting: 3M, 5F

  • SIR LUKE ENDERBY Q.C.
    LADY ENDERBY
    JULIA KEENE
    SUSAN WARREN
    MRS. PETTER
    FLORRIE PETTER
    HAYWARD
    A PORTER
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    Sir Luke Enderby, eminent prosecution barrister and seasoned womaniser, bites off more than he can chew, when the case of a serial killer comes back to haunt him. A tense one act thriller that’s contains one of Christie’s most gruesome murders. 

    Part of the live radio triple bill Murder in the Studio which also comprises Yellow Iris and Personal Call.

    $24.95