Bill Nighy stars as the actor-cum-amateur sleuth in Jeremy Front's series based on Simon Brett's stories. Charles finds himself at the Edinburgh Festival & murder is centre stage.
Charles is doing a one man play and Frances is directing him. But there's even more drama offstage as cast members in a student production in the same venue begin to drop dead before the curtain goes up on first night.
To his horror, Charles has landed a role in an immersive theatre production of Hamlet and, when an actress goes missing, Charles has to decide if this is to be or not to be a murder case.
Charles is in Oxford, appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept theatre group when the actress playing Ophelia goes missing. In between rehearsals with puppeteers and mime artists Charles decides to find out what has happened to her.
It's the opening of Charles's one man show at The Auld Infirmary in Edinburgh. But all the drama seems to be off stage as he tries to work out how Angus, an actor appearing in a student show at the same venue, was fatally stabbed . His suspicions lie with Martin, the troubled writer and activist who it appears will stop at nothing to promote his own political agenda. As Charles pursues his leads he finds himself in danger of becoming the next victim of the murderer.
Charles is in Oxford appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept theatre group when the actress playing Ophelia is found dead. When he suggests to the director that he had done to his lover what he is currently doing to Hamlet (murdering both) it goes down predictably badly. So who did kill Jenny?
Written by Jeremy Front
Based on the novel by Simon Brett
Cast:
CHARLES ..... Bill Nighy
FRANCES ..... Suzanne Burden
MAURICE ..... Jon Glover
JAMES ..... Roger Ringrose
ANGUS .....Tom Kiteley
TESSA/female interviewer ..... Joanna Monro
LAURA ..... Chloe Sommer
ANNA ..... Natasha K Stone
MARTIN..... Connor Curren
Directed by Sally Avens
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Wwilliam, much for this post!! We are in store for a huge dose of entertainment!
Another great one. Thanks for sharing.