Synopsis:

 

Two once successful crime writing playwrights are writing a block bluster to pay off their mounting debts or are they fulfilling their full potential by plotting the perfect murder? The nagging wife is the ideal victim, especially as she is heavily insured. It all seems plausible until their secretary is mistakenly killed and a stagestruck detective appears on the scene...

PLAYWRIGHT:  Brian Clemens and Dennis Spooner independantly and together wrote many scripts for some of the most popular television series of the 1960's & 70's.

A STING IN THE TALE

Genre:   Comedy Thriller

Playwright: Brian Clements &

Dennis Spooner

Directed by:  Anthony White

Production Date:  October 2001

Group:  BHTC

Staged:  The Theatre, Church Walk, Burgess Hill

BHTC Production Number: 218

Cast 

Rick Peckham

Anthony White

Derek Mclean, Steve Pavey, John Uwins, Laurie Moody, Andy Pilbeam & Tim Matthews

Chris Childs, Keith Samphier & Stephen Brown

Doreen Cripps

Pauline Childs

Helen Clapperton

David Bevan

Bob Greenyer & Graham Myers
Jim Wilson

Rosalind Wood

Crew 

Anthony Hole
Peter Forester

Nicki Plank

Julia Peckham

Bob Greenyer

 

Nigel Forbes

Max Goodman

Jill Prentice

Ann Forbes

D.I Raymond Berry

 

Stage Manager

Set Design

Set Construction and Painting

 

Sound & Lighting

Wardrobe

Make-Up

Properties

Prompt

Publicity

Programme Design

Box Office & Front of House Management

Programme & Press Review