Bequia International Theatre Festival
Bequia, Grenadines
Feb 2025
TBA
Richmond Hill, ON
January, 2026
TBA
Edmonton, AB
Oct 2025
Ottawa Little Theatre
Ottawa, ON
June 2024
Scotton Hall
GCC
Ottawa, ON
May 2022
Paper Bag Players
Yorkton, SK
October 2021
The Gladstone Theatre
Ottawa, ON
September 2019
Ottawa Little Theatre
Ottawa, ON
(Special performance)
November 2019
Domino Theatre
Kingston, ON
April 2019
The Avalon Studio
Ottawa, ON
October 2018
"John Muggleton has the devious insight of Patricia Highsmith, the ingenious plotting of an Agatha Christie mystery with the dramatic pace of a Hitchcock thriller. Think of a crazy blend of ‘Dial M for Murder’, ‘Strangers on a Train’, ‘And Then there were None’.
In the contemporary era of lucractive, financial scams, this is a meticulously crafted, slick, psychological thriller which delves into the exploitation of unsuspecting victims to plan the perfect crime. Type your paragraph here."
- Vivien Devlin, Edinburghguide.com (2024)
A tale full of twists and turns, the audience questions what it means to be a good person, how to make the right choices, what redemption really looks like, and if, in fact, the house always wins. Things are not as they seem and a surprise lurks around every corner of this show. A mystery for the ages, it’s worth catching this one before its time in Ottawa runs out!Type your paragraph here.
- Samara Caplan, Apt. 613
"Muggleton (Burn 2022) has created a smartly written suspense that opens with a prologue that does a solid job of capturing the audience’s attention. Grace’s backstory is reminiscent of a gruesome crime that ended the lives of a Toronto couple almost a decade ago, but this is a work of fiction that takes twists and turns the audience does not predict without any of the horror.
- Ottawa Life Magazine
Photos by Maria Vartanova
John Muggleton
Playwright
Ottawa Little Theatre, 2024
"Award-winning Ottawa playwright, John Muggleton, has created a riveting suspense story with An Act of Grace, brought to life on the Ottawa Little Theatre’s stage with superb direction by Lindsay LavioletteType your paragraph here."
- Courtney Castelino, Broadway World Ottawa
"The twists and turns the script takes, as well as the nasty self-centred characters, reminded me of the Tony Award-winning play Sleuth"
- Barbara Popel, Apt613.ca (2018)
From the producers and writer of 2022's "Burn", comes a new play ready to set the fringe ablaze.
A contemporary psychological thriller that will make you ask: just how farw ould you go to protect your deepest secrets?
A wealthy widow invites a lawyer and financial advisor to her country home to help get her affairs in order. Her guests quickly discover that all is not what it seems - she knows things about them, things that will destroy them. The two are thrust into a high stakes game that if lost will cost them everything they hold dear.
“Regrets are poison.”
An Act of Grace is running at theSpace @ Niddry Street (Venue 9) from August 2-24, 2024 (not 11) at 12:05pm (1hr). Tickets £12 / £9 concessions.Type your paragraph here.
An Act of Grace
A thriller by John Muggleton
4 characters (2 M, 2 F)
Grace, a wealthy and mysterious woman, invites Chuck, an ex golf pro turned financial advisor and Tony, a lawyer with sordid secrets, to her country home to discuss her estate and update her will. Once there they both realize Grace has more on her mind than business. The two men are thrust into a game of survival, that, if lost, will destroy their lives. A play with enough twists and turns to keep any audience on the edge of their seat.
Winner Best Production, Best Ensemble, The People’s Choice Award and Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting Award at the 2019 Eastern Ontario Drama League Theatre Festival in Kingston.
Mature themes, strong language.
Also available in French
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