Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society: Agatha Christie in America

Join The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society for an Agatha Christie double feature! The Society presents two audio plays by the grand dame of mystery, performed in the style of an old-time radio broadcast, complete with vintage commercials and live sound effects. It’s an “entertaining and creepy homage to an era gone by” (Cherry and Spoon), brought to life by veteran Twin Cities performers Shanan Custer, Joshua English Scrimshaw, Tim Uren, and Eric Webster, “using their voices to paint a picture so vivid that if you close your eyes, you can see the action in your mind’s eye” (Stages of Minnesota). “The Careless Victim” from Hercule Poirot (1945): Poirot arrives in New York in search of an apartment and finds a corpse instead! The debut episode of American radio’s first and only attempt to turn Christie’s beloved Belgian sleuth into the hero of his own weekly series. “The Shadow on the Glass” from The Mysterious Mr. Quin (premiere): A dinner party, a haunted window, and a double murder? All in a day’s work for Mr. Satterthwaite and his curiously-named friend, Harley Quin. The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society imagines an alternate 1945 in which the success of the Hercule Poirot radio series led to another American Agatha Christie adaptation: The Mysterious Mr. Quin.