Following the phenomenal decade-long success of The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, which sold over two million tickets and continually played to packed houses around the UK, Bill Kenwright presents a new production from the pen of the legendary award-winning writing team Levinson and Link, whose work includes the mystery series Murder, She Wrote and Columbo. Read more …
The star cast includes leading stage and TV actor Robert Daws, best known for The Royal and Outside Edge, and his wife and co-star from The Royal, Amy Robbins, who also starred in Blood Brothers in the West End; and from the record breaking Agatha Christie Theatre Company, Robert Duncan, best known for Drop the Dead Donkey, Susan Penhaligon who starred in the gripping drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Ben Nealon from ITV’s award winning Soldier Soldier. Joining them are Steven Pinder from Brookside and LUCY DIXON from Waterloo Road.
Playwright Alex Dennison is left heartbroken when his fiancée and leading lady Monica Welles is found dead from an apparent suicide. On the anniversary of that ill-fated night, Alex assembles the same cast and crew in the same theatre, for a reading of his new play. But as the reading begins, it becomes clear that Alex believes that Monica was murdered and he intends to uncover her killer…
If you like an entertaining whodunnit, this is exactly the solid, thoroughly enjoyable piece you are looking for.
This production by the Classic Thriller Theatre Company offers an evening of light entertainment which, unfortunately, is neither classic nor thrilling.
Part whodunnit, part revenge tragedy, it also lays bare the poverty of the out of work actor in a pleasingly gripping affair.
Simply, after ten years of touring with The Agatha Christie Company, this new Bill Kenwright venture, The Classic Thriller Company, looks like a barrel-scraping exercise.
Roy Marsden’s production emerges as a clever, well-made and thoroughly enjoyable thriller.
King's Theatre, Edinburgh from Monday March 21, 2016, until Saturday March 26, 2016. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/kings