Cluedo 2 - The Next Chapter
EVENT INFORMATION
Evenings: 7:30pm
Matinees: Thu 2pm, Sat 2.30pm
Running time: 2hrs (including interval)
Recommended: Contains flashing lights, smoke, loud bangs and use of replica weapons.
Following the huge success of the smash hit original play and exhausted from standing ovations night after night, Cluedo – the hilarious whodunit – is back on stage in 2024 with a New Chapter.
Set in the swinging 1960s, Cluedo 2, is a brand new tale, with a new house, new suspects, and a lot of new bodies!
The brilliant cast includes West End and TV star Jason Durr, whose numerous credits include leading roles in Heartbeat and Casualty, playing Colonel Mustard and award-winning actress and star of Coronation Street and Strictly Come Dancing champion, Ellie Leach, playing Miss Scarlett.
If you’re a fan of the much-loved board game – you’re gonna enjoy this! If you enjoyed the hysterical first play – you’re gonna love this one! And if you missed the first play it doesn’t matter – this is a brand new story – so come and have some fun – you’ll love it too!
Rock n roll legend Rick Black has not had a hit for years and he’s broke. But as he settles into his grand new, expensive home, Graveny Manor, Rick is desperate to revive his fading career and reclaim his fame and fortune…. and is prepared to do anything to get it back. Excited to reveal his long-awaited comeback album, Rick has assembled his supermodel wife, The Honourable Emerald Peacock; his manager, Colonel Eugene Mustard, long-time roadie “Professor” Alex Plum, Annabel Scarlett his trusted interior designer and housekeeper Mrs White, who came with the house and who knows all its secrets.
But there is still someone missing… Rick’s former songwriting partner “The Reverend” Hal Green, disappeared mysteriously at the same time that Rick’s career went downhill and without him, has Rick still got it?
And where did that butler come from?
As the bodies pile up, our infamous colourful characters uncover each other’s mysteries and secrets, as they dart from room to room trying to escape the murderer and survive the night.
With an all-new story, written by BAFTA Award winners Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and directed by Mark Bell – Director of the original hit UK production of Cluedo and the global hit, The Play That Goes Wrong and A Play About A Bank Robbery, Cluedo 2 – The Next Chapter, is a rollicking spoof of a comedy that will keep you guessing right up to the final twist and invites budding detectives of all ages, from 8 to 80 and beyond, to watch for the clues and unravel the secrets, as we all try to work out whodunnit…. with what… and where!!
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