Miss Marple and the Staring Gaze

Miss Jane Marple is enjoying a quiet retirement in an English village, but after injuring her ankle and being confined to her home, even a painful leg cannot stop the amateur detective from becoming embroiled in an exceptionally intricate murder mystery. Gentle and humorous yet razor-sharp, Miss Marple notices what others do not. When the famous film star Marina Gregg moves to the village and Heather Lee, an ordinary local woman, is poisoned at Marina’s cocktail party, the mystery is set. Was the film star Marina Gregg meant to be the murder victim? Who would want a famous film star dead? Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock is even called in from Scotland Yard to investigate, but in the end the sharp-eyed Miss Marple is needed. Murmuu-teatteri brings to the stage a masterful crime story by crime writer Agatha Christie, where a dark crime, British humor and a classic, intricately twisted plot meet amid the idyllic scenery of the English countryside. The play premieres on the stage at Muurame Cultural Centre on 17 October 2026.

Murmuu-teatteri website: www.murmuu.fi

Script: Agatha Christie
Finnish translation: Juho Gröndahl
Direction: Erika Hast

Performance rights for the play are administered by Näytelmäkulma - Nordic Drama Corner Oy.

Agatha Christie's "The Mirror Crack’d" adapted for the stage by Rachel Wagstaff
Finnish translation by Juho Gröndahl