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Synopsis

The action opens into the London flat of Wyndham Brandon in the year 1929 as he, and fellow perpetrator Charles Granillo, are found amidst the aftermath of their first murder. This is, however, not merely a murder of opportunity or chance, but rather the realisation of Brandon’s childhood dream – a ‘passionless, faultless, clueless and motiveless murder’ committed in the pursuit of ‘art’. In light of this, the pair proceed to conceal the corpse (that of their fellow undergraduate) within a capacious chest, inviting an eccentric group of individuals, including the murdered boy’s Father and Aunt, to partake in a feast upon it. As a thunderstorm rages outside, and the tension mounts, emotions run riot as Rupert Cadell, a war ravaged poet and former tutor to the guilty pair, becomes increasingly suspicious of the evenings events.

Praise

★ ★ ★ ★

'Eliot Ruocco-Trenouth gives a well-detailed portrait of Charles Granillo, the weaker of the two undergraduates...his confederate is Wyndham Brandon, to whom Tom Moran gives the right degree of unpleasant superiority.'

Anne Morley-Priestman (WhatsOnStage)

'Elliot Hughes creates a memorable character as a limping war veteran, tieless and in cordouroys, a misfit of peacetime, amoral but as accusative as Priestley's Inspector.'

Basil Abbot (Plays International)

'Cordelia Spence directs her young cast superbly, achieving a fine balance between well-drawn caricatures in a mannered piece of its era and a tale to grip a contemporary audience.'

David Porter (Eastern Daily Press)

Cast & Crew

Sir Johnstone Kentley
James Anderson

Rupert Cadell
Elliot Hughes

Leila Arden
Kirsty Mealing

Wyndham Brandon
Tom Moran

Kenneth Raglan
Luke Penrose

Mrs Debenham
Jo Lucy Rackham

Sabot
Lee Samuels

Director
Cordelia Spence

Assistant Director
Jo Lucy Rackham

Stage Manager
Alexandra Casey

Assistant Stage Manager
Rebecca Evers

Lighting & Sound Operator
Declan Pattison

Sound Designer
Thomas Preston

Set Designer
Eloise Mitchell

Costumes
Suzannah Platt

Additional Props
Rosalind Hewett

Additional Costume & Props
Lauren Abel

Fight Choreographer
Elizabeth Talbot

Filming & Editing
Aaron Hudson

Rehearsal Photography
Luke Penrose

Graphics & Poster
Pencil Bandit

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