Photo Flash: New Old Friends Present CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Crimes Against Christmas is a comedy thriller for an adult audience. The plot is loosely based around Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with an apparently random group of people mysteriously invited to a Christmas party on a remote island. Once on the island, the guests start to die in suspiciously Christmassy ways: Pipers whilst piping, Lords whilst leaping, Maids whilst milking - and guest of honour Peter Artridge doesn't like the look of the rope in the pear tree one bit.
Check out photos from the production below!
An alternative Christmas show to conventional panto, it features a host of characters brought to life by just four actors, sweeping the audience along with a fast based narrative and enough hints (and red herrings) to have them wondering just who the villain is to the very end. Basically it's Agatha Christie meets 12 Days of Christmas meets 39 Steps.
New Old Friends are a theatre company dedicated to creating original comedy theatre, founded in 2008 and run by husband and wife team Feargus Woods Dunlop & Heather Westwell. Previous shows include Silly Songs of Shakespeare, Anti-Panto! and Mate. In 2014 & 2015 New Old Friends took their adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's The Falcon's Malteser on two national tours and also to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015, enjoying sell-out shows at the Pleasance and great critical acclaim. During the fringe, after a chance conversation via Twitter, the company met Lichfield Garrick's artistic director Tim Ford and the collaboration for Crimes Against Christmas began.
For more information visit www.newoldfriends.co.uk.
Photo credit: Pamela Raith Photography
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
Cast of CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS
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