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Tri-County Players Announces Auditions for their December production

HERCULE POIROT & THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS RUBY by Todd Olson
Directed by Judy Berrens & Gregory Smith

Audition Dates:

• Sunday, October 6th 6:30pm – 8:30pm at the Evendale Bell Tower Art Pavilion (Theater) – 3270 Glendale Milford Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45241
• Monday, October 7th 6:30pm – 8:30pm at the Evendale Cultural Arts Center (lower level studio) – 10428 Reading Rd, Sharonville, OH 45241

Auditions will consist of called readings from the script.

Production dates: December 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15

For a Christmas present the American heiress Ruth (VanAldren) Kettering is given the most coveted ruby in the world – the “Heart of Fire” – by her loving father. She then boards the famous Blue Train to meet a lover on the French Riviera. Enroute, she meets an English country girl possessing a fortune from a recent inheritance. The women leave behind an unfaithful husband, an industrialist father, and a host of other shadowy international figures with mysterious pasts. But when the Blue Train arrives in Nice, one of them is dead, and vacationing Hercule Poirot is drawn into service once again. On this train, no one is who they seem, and only Detective Poirot can disentangle the disguises and deceptions.
Adapted from Agatha Christie’s 1928 novel “The Mystery of the Blue Train”.

5m/3w, some actors portray multiple characters.

• Ruth Kettering – American heiress – plays mid 20’s
• Rufus Van Aldren – Ruth’s father – plays 50+
• Katherine Grey – English country girl – plays mid 30’s
• Old Miss Viner – English, sassy, blunt – plays 70+
• Ada Mason – American maid – plays mid 20’s to mid 30’s
• Mirelle – French dancer – plays mid 20’s to mid 30’s
• Derek Kettering – Englishman, Ruth’s husband – plays mid 30’s
• Hercule Poirot – Detective – plays 50+
• Monsieur Caux, Commissionaire of Police – plays 40’s
• The Conductor – plays 30+
• Knighton – Mr. Van Alden’s assistant – plays 40”s
• Monsieur Le Compte – plays 30+
• Zia Papopolous – jeweler – age open

For more information please contact the directors at Judy at goddessofsplendor@yahoo.com or Greg at eerf99@aol.com.