The Cinema Mystery

The town of Valleby is gripped by fear as someone is kidnapping local dogs for ransom. The famous actress, Iva Ross, who has come to the Rio cinema for the screening of her latest western The Whistling Cowboy in which she appears alongside her dog, Karl Filip, becomes the next victim. Dog owners are distraught and the police helpless. The criminal appears to be exceptionally cunning. The only clue is a ransom note. The chief of police is forced to ask Maja and Lasse for help. The young detectives have helped the police many times before but will they manage to solve the mystery this time? Will they find the place where the dogs are being kept? Will they be able to name the culprit?

In the next part of our theatre series, we do not only follow the events on a wonderful miniature model of Valleby, as designed by Dariusz Panas, but we are finally allowed to take a peek into one of the buildings – an elaborately constructed model of the Rio cinema’s interior, specially devised for the play. More observant members of the audience will notice that this is no ordinary model. The cinema holds screenings of an animated movie by the director of the play Ireneusz Maciejewski and the set designer Dariusz Panas, and the walls  are covered in posters and photos which are regularly changed – just like in a real cinema. 

In The Cinema Mystery we meet characters familiar from the previous part but also get to know other residents of Valleby. The makers of the play claim that some inhabitants of the town resemble famous movie stars. Is this really so? You’ll have to see for yourselves.

The Cinema Mystery, like its predecessor, The Diamond Mystery, is a detective play full of mysteries and guesswork. As befits the genre, you can be sure of unexpected plot twists and plenty of dangerous chases. The audience also becomes involved in the police investigation.