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The Belfry Theatre’s Rehearsal for Murder, a murder-mystery whodunit, is on stage now at The Ivy Tech Auditorium in Noblesville. The play is directed by Diane Wilson of Carmel. The first show of Hamilton County Theatre Guild’s 58th season runs through Oct. 2. Tickets are still available.
The play takes place in the 1980s on a Broadway stage. One year following the untimely death of a famous on-screen actress and rising Broadway star, a well-known playwright (and former fiancé of the star) assembles all those who last interacted with the actress in an effort to discover who killed his fiancée. Does he trap the killer, or not?
Wilson, because of her love for murder-mysteries, wanted to direct one, sooner or later. Last year, quite by chance, she happened upon this Rehearsal for Murder script.
“Since it did incorporate a murder, along with actors and a theater, I felt that I’d hit the jackpot,” Wilson wrote in the play’s program. “Therefore, I ordered it, and I read it. Immediately, I knew I wanted to direct it.”