"I had a very good friend who woke up one evening to smoke billowing in her apartment," the actor, Alex Wolfe, said in his crisp London accent. $ 0 / (min cost $ 0 ) Login or signup to continue reading "Her fiance woke up, and they couldn't believe the flat was filled with smoke. They opened all the windows and went to the oven, nothing was on.
They couldn't smell anything." Wolfe's fellow actors - Hannah Fredericksen and Alex Rathgeber - leant in, hanging on every word. "They turned the lights on, and it was still smokey," Wolfe went on eerily, "And then, within seconds, it disappeared.
"There was nothing to explain where the smoke came from; no smell, no fireworks, no nothing. "But they lived above a funeral home, and they feel like it could have been something paranormal." It was the perfect weather for a good mystery story.
Grey cloud rolled over the coast off Newcastle Ocean Baths on Tuesday evening, blown under a biting chill, as the last of the sun reflected off the odd ship looming like ghosts on the wine-dark water. The three actors, adding to the atmosphere, were dressed in sharp '50s stylings appropriate for the roles they have been playing at the Civic for a little over a week. Wolfe plays the rakish young architect Christopher Wren in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap to Fredericksen's newlywed Monkswell Manor inheritor Mollie Ralston and her on-stage husband Giles, played by Rathgeber.
The play is famous; the longest-running show on London's West End, with a twist.
