Murder Mistaken by Janet Green

Northern Theatre Studio2
June 3-5 1994

Outwardly respectable, Edward Bare is, in fact, a cold calculating psychopath. Having murdered his wife for her money he sets himself up in a new life but his past comes back to haunt him. A tense psychological thriller set in the 1950’s.

Cast

Emmie

Helen Robinson

Monica Bare

Jenny Stewart

Philip Mortimer

Peter Glendenen

Edward Bare

Ray Rumkee

Freda Jefferies

Joanne Leach

Charlotte Young

Sharon Burton

Directed by Ray Rumkee

Teddy Bare's Picnic

Edward Bare - nuttier than squirrel shit! Mind you, we had to remove all of Monica’s nauseating references to him as "My Teddy Bare" or the audience’s sympathies would have been entirely with Edward when he bumped her off and we'd have had to advertise the play as 'Justifiable Homicide Mistaken'.
After going bonkers at the end of the play each night and attacking a poor defenceless armchair with a poker (bending the poker in the process) Ray vowed to never again cast himself in such a large part when he was directing. But see 'Dead Of Night'.

Director's Commentary

This had me as yet another git, only this time not in a cardy but in a tank top. I played a psycho killer and, to be honest, all I remember about this is that I did in Jenny (who played my wife, Monnie) and I made it look as if she’d been poisoned by the gas fire, a hulking great metal prop which I still have in my garage Ray

Quote, Unquote

I enjoyed it. Got to shout a lot Sharon
I got to swear, smoke, spit and shock (the in-laws) Joanne
Very tedious plot and nightmare knitwear Betty
"My Teddy Bare"!! Pass the vomit bowl David

Edward starts to twitch Charlotte discovers The Awful Truth - her handbag's out of fashion!
Cheap Publicity

"A tense psychological thriller about a nice normal bloke who just happens to kill people in secret", said the Mail rather oddly.

Was I In That One?

Peter bowed out with this play. "Peter is a taxidermist by trade and enjoys stuffing animals both large and small. An enthusiastic whelk-breeder, his ambition is to become as good an actor as Larry Hagman" ran his pen picture from the 'Farndale Ladies Macbeth' programme. It’s surprising we kept such a sane individual for over three years.

Edward puts Monnie out of her (and our) misery