Welcome to InPlayers’ Halloween 2025 production:
Murder in the Studio
by Agatha Christie
This show consists of three separate one-act plays, all written by the queen of crime, Agatha Christie: Personal Call, Yellow Iris, and Butter in a Lordy Dish.
Each of these plays will be staged as a “radio play”. As an audience member you will enjoy watching the radio-play-actors give voice to the characters and breath life into the stories. Our foley artists will produce the sound effects that set the tone for the murder mysteries.
You can sign up to auditions until July 12th. See here for more details.
You don’t want to miss this unique show that will employ all your senses to the fullest! Tickets will be available from the end of July.
Performances Dates:
Thursday evening, October 30th, 2025
Friday evening, October 31st, 2025
Saturday evening, November 1st, 2025
Sunday afternoon, November 2nd, 2025
Performance Location: Polanentheater, 174 Polanenstraat, Amsterdam
About Agatha Christie
Born in Torquay, England in 1890, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. With over one billion books sold in English and another billion in over 100 languages, she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She wrote 80 crime novels and collections of short stories, over 25 plays (including The Mousetrap, the world’s longest running play), and six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced the world to the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, followed a decade later by the shrewd and often-underestimated Miss Marple. Visit www.agathachristie.com for more information.
About the Radio Plays
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Personal Call by Agatha Christie is directed by Sam Aronson. This mysterious story explores the supernatural. James Brent is plagued by his past, through mysterious phone calls from a lady called Fay. | |
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Yellow Iris by Agatha Christie is directed by Brian Ligthart. This story features the famous Hercule Poirot. A distraught woman's frantic phone call leads Poirot to a restaurant, where a man is celebrating the anniversary of his wife's suspicious death. | |
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Butter in a Lordly Dish by Agatha Christie is directed by Sherilyn Caudle. This tense story contains one of Christie's most gruesome murders. Barrister Sir Luke Enderby, who prosecuted a serial killer in the past, finds his life threatened when the case resurfaces. |
Crew
| Brian Ligthart | Director of Yellow Iris | |
| Sam Aronson | Director of Personal Call | |
| Sherilyn Caudle | Director of Butter in a Lordly Dish | |
| Rae Gerritsen | Overall Production Lead, Stage Manager | |
| Ente Breed | Overall Production | |
| Willem Gerritsen | Stage Crew | |
| Jon Madge | Foley Sound Design | |
| Gaia Temin | Marketing Lead | |
| Sean Olson-Roy | Committee Liaison |
We’re looking for people to strengthen the team that will produce this play. Click here to see how you can help!
As with all InPlayers’ productions, this is a show produced and performed by amateur theatre enthusiasts.
'Murder in the Studio' © 1937, 1948, 1954 Agatha Christie Limited All rights reserved. 'AGATHA CHRISTIE', 'POIROT' and the Agatha Christie Signature Mark are trademarks of Agatha Christie Ltd.. All rights reserved.
The rights to this play are controlled by Agatha Christie Ltd.. For further information about this play, others by Agatha Christie and about other stage adaptations of her stories, please visit: www.agathachristie.com.