The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
By Philip Grecian
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a play that needs 12 or more performers (5 women, 7 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 12 or more performers
- Roles
- 5 women, 7 men
- Cast notes
- 7 to 8m., 5w.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- thriller
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
In the small village of King’s Abbot, before she commits suicide, Mrs. Ferrars admits to her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, that she had murdered her husband a year earlier. Ackroyd relays the information to the village doctor James Sheppard, revealing that the woman was being blackmailed to keep the murder a secret. Later, Ackroyd himself is murdered as he sits in his study, and Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called out of retirement to investigate. Poirot engages Sheppard’s help to find the kille
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