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 sore leg cannot keep the amateur detective from becoming embroiled in a fiendishly complicated murder mystery. Gentle and humorous, yet razor-sharp, Miss Marple notices what others do not. When famous film star Marina Gregg moves to the village and Heather Lee, an ordinary local woman, is poisoned at her 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 Miss Marple’s keen eye is needed. Murmuu-teatteri brings to the stage a masterful crime story by the queen of detective fiction, Agatha Christie, where a dark crime, British humour and a classically intricate plot meet amid the idyllic scenery of the English countryside. The play premieres on the stage of 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.