A deliciously demented take on the pulp gothic romance, Hitchcock’s Rebecca meets The Pink Panther.
“One of the funniest pieces of theatre you will ever see, performed by four of the greatest clowns working in Britain.” Time Out
Overflowing with brilliant characters, rip-roaring farce and virtuoso physical comedy, this is the show which made Spymonkey an international comedy sensation from Just For Laughs Montreal to Sydney Opera House.
“A perfectly paced hybrid of the Pink Panther and Psycho” The Independent
A spooky mansion, a plucky young heroine and a handsome English aristocrat. Add a German butler and a Spanish soap star and you’re… COOPED with Spymonkey!
Beautiful, fawn-like Laura du Lay arrives in the heart of darkest Northumberlandshirehampton to take up a post as secretary to the reclusive (but devastatingly handsome) Forbes Murdston. She has ignored for as long as she can the unsettling rumours that surround her new employer and his ominous manservant Klaus. If only Roger Parchment, the family lawyer, were not so obviously in love with her! Then she could confide in him her darkest fears:
Is Forbes really the killer who lurks in the darkness? Who is the prey he seeks? And will Inspector Detective Judadench solve the mystery before it is too late?!
Directed by Cal McCrystal, the comedy genius behind the National Theatre’s One Man Two Guvnors.
“Shriekingly, helplessly hilarious. For all their gleeful, larky enjoyment wafting across the footlights like a blessing, these are serious virtuosi” The Times
created by Cal McCrystal, Aitor Basauri, Stephan Kreiss, Petra Massey, Toby Park
director Cal McCrystal
production design Lucy Bradridge
incidental music & sound design Toby Park
‘4xinLove’ written & produced by Neil Filby & Toby Park / diva remix by Jean-François Houle / guest vocalist Corinne Zarzour
‘Mr Sandman’ original composition by Pat Ballard 1954 / production: Toby Park & Jean-François Thibeault / drums: Larry Aberman / double bass: Simon Dolan / piano: Eliot Douglass
Love Sounds th’Alarm by GF Handel / harpsichord Peter McCarthy
video production Lorna Heavey / cameraman: James Nutt, Mat Baynton / video nun: Zoe Bywater
photographs Bernhard Fuchs, Sean Dennie, Jane Hobson
graphic design Toby Park
illustration The Red Dress
1st UK Performance 17th July 2001 at Komedia Brighton
Revived for international touring 2005. 2013, 2019
Unit 7b Level 3 North, New England House,
New England St, Brighton BN1 4GH
email:
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Spymonkey is resident ensemble company at Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
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