Kate Summerscale’s vivid and gripping bestselling non-fiction thriller is brought to the stage for the first time in this dramatic adaptation.
Summer 1860, an elegant country house, a young boy is found dead in an outside privy. All clues point towards the murderer being a member of the grieving household. But which one?
Called to the scene is the most celebrated detective of his day, Jonathan Whicher from Scotland Yard. Faced with an inept local police force, a middle-class family ravaged by secrets, and a lack of evidence, will he be able to solve the case?
This original Victorian whodunit becomes a battle of wits between the professional detective and the only one who knows what really happened. In this fresh re-telling, fact and fiction bleed into each other, and the Truth becomes something to be fought over.
Videography: Alex Ryland-Jones
Production photography: Pamela Raith
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Performance Information
Running Time: approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes including a 20 minute interval.
Guidance on Content: This production includes the use of vivid descriptions of violence (involving the murder of a child), haze, and flashing lights.
Accessible Performances
Audio Described Performance: Saturday 10 June at 2.30pm with a Touch Tour at 12.30pm, described by Jane Brambley
Closed Captioned Performances: Monday 5 June at 7.30pm and Saturday 10 June at 2.30pm
Join us...
Over to You: Try out your directing skills and rehearse a selection of scenes from The Suspicions of Mr Whicher with director, Kate Budgen, on Saturday 10 June, 11am - 1pm. Cost £20 (£15 for show ticket holders). Book here.
Post Matinee Q&A on Saturday 10 June (BSL interpreted)
Food and Drink
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Adapted by Alexandra Wood
Directed by Kate Budgen
Design by Amy Jane Cook
Lighting Design by Katy Morison
Sound Design and Composition by Beth Duke
Projection Design by Rachel Sampley
Movement and Intimacy Direction by Angela Gasparetto
Christopher Naylor
Jonathan Whicher
(Dangerous Corner and Hard Times – The Watermill, The Woman in Black – West End)
Eleanor Wyld
Constance
(Leopoldstadt – West End, The Merchant of Venice – The Globe)
Connie Walker
Mrs Kent
(The Taxidermist's Daughter - Chichester, Macbeth – Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch)
Jim Creighton
Mr Kent
(The Importance of Being Earnest, Journey’s End – The Watermill, Skylight - NT)
Sam Liu
William
(a recent RADA graduate, most recently seen in Ted Lasso for Apple TV)
Robyn Sinclair
Gough
(The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – West End and tour, Amélie – West End (Criterion Theatre)