Theatre

 

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If you’re looking for a laugh and a night of pure entertainment, then “Death By Fatal Murder” is the perfect place to find it with an amusing and exciting performance at the Lincoln Theatre Royal.

A comedy twist on classic ‘whodunit’ murder mysteries, Ian Dickens Productions presents you with an evening full of slapstick comedy and ribald laughs in the style of “Allo Allo” and “Are You Being Served”.

“Death By Fatal Murder” is the third play in the Inspector Pratt trilogy by Peter Gordon, but it needed no introduction. With an all star cast there was no doubt that it would be a fun filled, entertaining evening.

When David Callister first made an appearance as Pratt, the whole stage lit up with his cracking performance. His charming, but somewhat idiotic character fills the story with cheeky innuendos and almost cringe worthy jokes that never fail to receive a snigger from the audience. His foolishness made you take an instant liking to the character.

Accompanied by Christopher Elderwood playing PC Thompkins (or Napkins as Pratt continually, to much laughter, accidentally called him), Pratt returns to Bagshot House to investigate the disappearance of Constable Atkins.

Whilst there, he finds himself in the middle of something much more complicated and chaotic. Where is the lady of the house’s estranged husband? What is she hiding? Is the barmy Welsh medium really conversing with dead spirits? And what happened to that mysterious cheese sandwich!?

Actor Leslie Grantham, more commonly known as Dirty Den from “Eastenders” plays Enzo Garibaldi and Richard Gibson whilst the brilliant Herr Flick from “’Allo ‘Allo” plays Squadron Leader Roger Allwright.

“Death By Fatal Murder” also stars Michelle Hardwick from “The Royal” as Nancy Allwright and Katy Manning from classic “”Doctor Who” as the eccentric Blodwyn Morgan.

The play is well suited to anyone who wants an evening of risqué jokes, raucous laughs and quality, unadulterated entertainment. A fantastic play if you’re new to trips to the theatre.

 

 

 

 

Former soapstars Leslie Grantham and Sandra Maitland star in a stage version of Stephen King's classic novel of psychological horror. If you don't know the story: a successful writer crashes in a blizzard and is rescued by his 'number 1 fan'. She is disappointed at his treatment of her favourite charactor and won't let him go before that situation is rectified.

 

The setting is sucessful businessman John Miles and his wife Barbara's converted barn's living room in the remote English countryside. It's a mess, there's a leather suite and what look like books by the yard in green, red and yellow, one ornament, a cherub, and picture lights but no pictures. Everything of taste or quality has gone including John's Meissen. They've been out with John's friends from school, Trevor and Jenny Farrington. Yep it's what we all dread - a burglary, but who has been stealing what from whom?.

 

Nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is a bitter American expatriate living with regrets amidst the glamour and turmoil of Morocco during World War II. His life takes a few unexpected turns, first when he comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit, and again when his one-time love Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) arrives in town with her husband Victor Laszlo, leader of the Czech underground, who is wanted by the Nazis. Rick is faced with a series of dilemmas, concerning his feelings towards Ilsa and the possibilities that the letters of transit may hold for them both.

 

3 acts - 3 kitchens - 3 Christmases - 1 hilarious night at the theatre! In three immensely funny snapshots - each set during a successive Christmas party - the playwright pokes compassionate fun at the various pretensions, mannerisms and delusions of his six hapless protagonists. Combining elements of pure, sparkling farce with a wild gallows humor, Ayckbourn skillfully marries substance to hilarity.

 

The Opposite sex

Mark, Vicky, Judith and Eric have something in common and a chance meeting could have made for a pleasant evening however as they all come face to face, the common denominator turns out to be that they had an affair with their opposite partner- the air gets blue, the china starts flying, wait and see as to what happens in this matrimonial comedy!!

Inside Job

Out of the reach of English law, Spain is a well -known haven for criminals who skip abroad and assume other identities. On the Costa del Sol, professional safe-cracker Larry has struck it Lucky. Gorgeous Suzy asks him to steal the diamonds from her husband Alex's safe and run away with her to Rio. At the same time Alex also employs Larry to murder Suzy for her £100,000 life insurance policy. Larry decides to tell Suzy about her husband's plans, and together they plot to steal the diamonds, murder Alex, and make off with the dividend from Alex's similar insurance policy. Several twists add to the suspense and clarify Larry's true identity, while revealing that Suzy and Alex are not what they seem in this exciting thriller from the author of Shock! and Edge of Darkness