featuring Laura Giannarelli and Helen Hayes Award nominee Steven Carpenter.
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Sherlock Holmes meets “Arsenic & Old Lace.” In 1893, a brazen serial killer is terrorizing London. So two strong-willed sisters who run a boarding house for single ladies take matters into their own hands – especially when Scotland Yard proves no help at all. Teaming up with a cheeky American actress, they set off to solve the crime in this entertaining murder mystery with a modern women-take-charge sensibility. An Area Premiere.

Cast:
Jen Furlong – Loveday Fortescue
Laura Giannarelli – Valeria Hunter
Debora Crabbe – Katherine (Katie) Smalls
Steven Carpenter – Crane/Jasbry/Toddy

Morgan Duncan (Director) has done 18 shows with the Washington Stage Guild since The Marriage of Figaro in 1988 and The Good Doctor in 2022. The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective marks his third time directing for the Guild. Mr. Duncan holds a BFA from Howard University and has performed regionally at theaters like the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Locally, he has performed at Arena Stage, the Folger Shakespeare Theater, Round House Theater, Everyman Theatre, and others. He was a long time member of the Capitol Steps.

“This witty contemporary spin on the Victorian murder mystery confronts convention, gender bias, and a serial killer all in…a heady concoction of suspense, thrills, and laughter.”
— BroadwayWorld

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