This was my 3rd time seeing this play and my first live in-person theatre trip for over a year and a half!
I chose this as my first show after lockdown as I wanted something I liked and was familiar with to try to spot covid related safety changes. The pre-show show has been adapted with the cast/crew interacting with the audience from the stage or sound desk area, with a cast/crew member taking the role normally filled by an audience member.
This is a “play within a play” and is a pure farce with a drama group putting on a murder mystery. It has fault props, problems with lines, injuries and scenery/set problems.
It was just as good as the pre-West End your version I saw with the original cast and the one I saw a couple of years ago at the Duchess Theatre (although this time didn’t have an unscripted extra safety curtain appearance due to something going wrong for real), there were understudied for Trevor (Euan Bennet) and Max (Jack Michael Stacey), but they were very good in the role – and Winston, the dog, is still missing!
10/10
