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“I say, you haven’t taken the pith, have you old boy?”
CANONBIE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: The new HARDCASTLE & BLOOM Mystery...DON’T TAKE THE PITH
Written by Peter Rae – Directed by Helen Bang
Two beloved returning characters…
A colonial outpost…
A missing talisman…
A tentative peace with the local tribe
&
Lots of stuff that isn’t all worthy and important…
A Brand-New JEWEL-HEIST – GHOST STORY – FARCE!
HOT on the heels of last-year’s HIT DEBUT PLAY at the Drayton Arms, An Absolute Farce of a Murder Mystery (5* reviews & FINALIST Best Comedy London Pub Theatre Awards), Canonbie Productions presents This Season’s HOTTEST* Play.*(Yes, a pun).
Set in the year Nineteen Hundred & Somerset Maugham, noted psychic Lady Susan Bloom & self-proclaimed ‘wit, rake and raconteur’ Lord Sebastian Hardcastle are summoned by The Crown to the colonial island of Not-Borneo. (It’s not a million miles away from Borneo, but it’s somewhere you definitely haven’t been and so you’re entirely unqualified to criticise our depiction of non-Western European civilisations).
The talisman of the local tribe has gone missing – and the list of suspects is made up of a bunch of hilarious and excellently-defined characters: is it Lord Peter Meur, head of the British Outpost, or his wife, Lady Fleur de Meur? Could it be an inside-job, orchestrated by powerful and drop-dead-gorgeous Headswoman of the local tribe - Adiratna? Or her suspicious First Minister, her “No. 1” - Kanaka? The equally exotic Doctor Frenchman (pronounced Fronkmain), a guest on the island, with hidden motives? Or in true unexpected-Christie-style – the unassuming servant, Maud Pauper?
OR – are things not quite what they seem?
(Yeah, probably that).
Party Baggage (5/26/24-5/27/24)
POWER & PROTEST (6/2/24-6/3/24)
Radiant Vermin (6/4/24-6/5/24)
Bedbug (6/11/24-6/22/24)
A Terrible Show for Terrible People (6/23/24-6/24/24)
The Plan, A Festival Of New Writing (6/25/24-6/26/24)
Midnight Tattoos (7/9/24-7/13/24)
Death’s Veiled Agenda (8/13/24-8/18/24)
Lady Macbeth Uncut (10/15/24-10/26/24)
My Wife Fell in Love with a Life Size Cardboard Cut-out of Ronan Keating (11/5/24-11/9/24)
Drayton Arms Theatre is at Drayton Arms Pub & Theatre, 153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0 LJ, London.
Circle Mirror Transformation (5/12/24-5/13/24)
The Pirate's Curse (5/7/24-5/18/24)
Constellations (5/1/24-5/4/24)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (4/24/24-4/27/24)
She (4/21/24-4/22/24)
French bashing by a Frenchman! (4/16/24-4/20/24)
Black Velvet (4/14/24-4/15/24)
I'm Sexy and I Know It (4/7/24-4/8/24)
13 (4/2/24-4/6/24)
Wonders of Our Universe (3/31/24-4/1/24)