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Don’t Take The Pith! at Drayton Arms Theatre

Dates: (5/21/2024 - 6/1/2024 )

Theatre:

Drayton Arms Theatre

Canonbie Productions

Drayton Arms Pub & Theatre, 153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0 LJ
London,

Tickets: £20 standard, £18 concession

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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).

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