LEGENDARY actor and director Brian Blessed will be returning to direct another Agatha Christie ‘whodunnit’ at a theatre in Sonning next year, it has been revealed.
The booming star of stage and screen will return to The Mill at Sonning, less than a year since his last residency, to direct the crime-writer’s classic Spider’s Web between July 6 and August 26.
Blessed’s wife, Hildegard Neil, and daughter Rosalind Blessed, graced the Sonning stage earlier this year in the comedy-thriller The Hollow, and Brian himself will return to the dinner theatre on January 22 for his one-man show and Q&A session An Evening With Brian Blessed.
Spider’s Web is billed as an evening complete with intrigue, lies, murder and mystery – all the classic ingredients of a Christie classic.
Clarissa has a vivid imagination but not even she could be prepared for the moment she stumbles upon a bloody corpse. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician – a man on his way to secret talks at 10 Downing Street! – Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices.
But then the web of deceit becomes even more tangled as a mysterious phone-call tips off the police and brings the determined Inspector Lord to the scene. Clarissa soon realises he is convinced that one of them is the killer and finds her talent for storytelling put to the test as she fights to keep her friends and family from suspicion.
At the same time her own life is in dire danger as the search for the real murderer comes closer and closer to being revealed.
Tickets for Spider’s Web are on sale now from £46, which includes a two-course meal and tea or coffee. Click here to book tickets.
Tickets for An Evening with Brian Blessed are also on sale now, priced at £80. Click here to book tickets.
