Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Spring Play 2010

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LORD ARTHUR SAVILE is a well-bred gentleman who is ‘not overburdened with brains’. His engagement to the lovely Sybil Merton looks like eternal happiness – but all this changes when his prospective mother in law, Lady Julia Merton, insists he has his palm read by Madame Podgetskia, a well-respected cheiromantist who predicts that Lord Arthur will commit a murder at some time. To prevent his future wife from having to bow her head in shame for him, Arthur feels duty-bound to get the dirty deed over and done with before the marriage and sets about choosing his victim, and their method of disposal.

He enlists the help of his faithful butler, Baines, and decides to poison his great aunt. While planning this murder, a strange character appears offering his help. His name is Herr Winkelkopf and he professes to be ‘President of the Royal Society of Anarchists’. Suffice to say, things go drastically awry with the first murder attempt, so another victim is selected, and another! Things then go from bad to worse, until an important revelation about the identity of Madame Podgetskia puts an end to the whole fiasco…or does it?

The Lane End Players performed a well-received run of ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ in April of 2010.