Saturday Night Cleaver

Full-Length Comedy Muder Mystery Play

Saturday Night Cleaver – the Killer Comedy Murder Mystery

A laugh-out-loud whodunnit dripping with plot twists, polyester flares and potentially poisoned prawn cocktails.

Characters

Guests at The Last Resort Hotel

Miss Phyllis Brisket, celebrated author of the ‘Penfold Pottington Mysteries’

Everard Fanthorpe, Miss Brisket’s friend and companion

Terry Nutclough, a visitor to the area for a christening

Marion Nutclough, Terry’s wife

Olive Gripewater, Marion’s mother

Doris Bapps, Olive’s sister and Marion’s auntie

Eloise Breese, another visitor for the christening

Shandie Figgins, Eloise’s friend

Ray Merridick, another visitor for the christening

Nigel Merridick, Ray’s son

Staff at The Last Resort Hotel

Godfrey Bloomflannel, the general manager

Topiary Cutbush, the receptionist

Bernie Spatchcock, the chef

It’s 1975, and the staff at the Last Resort Hotel are welcoming weekend guests to their damp, isolated corner of the British countryside with Martini Rosso and sausages on sticks. Amongst the arrivals is Olive Gripewater, a cantankerous, unpleasant woman with a particularly long list of enemies. When she is found dead with a cleaver embedded between her shoulder blades, there is no shortage of suspects.

Enter Miss Phyllis Brisket, a crime novelist who has conveniently checked into the hotel’s deluxe suite hours earlier. With the assistance of her flamboyant friend, Everard, a theatre producer with a flair for the dramatic and a suitcase full of crushed velvet, Miss Brisket decides to turn her hand to some real-life sleuthing and vows to solve the case.

With no phone line, no escape and no end to the shag pile carpet, the race is on for Miss Brisket to unravel the tangled web of secrets and lies and identify the murderer before they strike again.