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Tue 6 – Sat 10 August
Murdered To Death by Peter Gordon By arrangement with Josef Weinberg Ltd This hilarious play, which is set in the 1930s, introduces the inept and bungling Inspector Pratt, a police officer who battles against the odds and his own incompetence when called upon to solve a murder at a country manor house. When it becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet the only question left is will the miscreant be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom or will the audience die laughing first? This spoof of the Agatha Christie ‘whodunnit’ genre is the first of the Inspector Pratt trilogy. |
Tue 13 – Sat 17 August
Fatal Encounter by Francis Durbridge Howard, a well-known book publisher, is concerned for his wife, Joanna. Since returning from the country, she has become unusually distressed, nervous and mysterious. When Howard arrives home to find Perry, a former friend, has been shot by Joanna in a struggle, the story takes a sinister turn. It soon becomes clear that Perry has been blackmailing her and, to protect Joanna, Howard confesses to the shooting and suddenly becomes the centre of a complex investigation where no-one is blameless. |
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Tue 20 – Sat 24 August
Veronica’s Room by Ira Levin By arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd This chilling mystery thriller explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests at the Brabissant mansion, lured there by its degenerate caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple encourage her to impersonate Veronica briefly to comfort her elderly sister who still believes Veronica to be alive. Once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role and in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan? |
Tue 27 – Sat 31 August
The Mysterious Mr Love By Karoline Leach When jaded con-man, George Love, encounters naïve, middle-aged and ever-hopeful Adelaide, a working-class milliner who purposely works in the back room so as not to trouble the customers with her plain looks, he plays on her desperate longing for a new life in order to follow through on his plans to marry her, take her nest egg and dump her as per his modus operandi. But once together in their cheap honeymoon lodgings by the sea, his plans begin to unravel in bizarre and unpredictable ways. This story of love, trust and how we deal with second chances gives you a climactic end that creeps up on you unaware and leaves you with a spine-chilling sensation. |
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Devonshire Park Theatre , Eastbourne
3rd - 7th Sept with Weds & Sat matinees 
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