Details

Brandon is prepared to go to any lengths to inject some excitement into his life. When he and his impressionable friend Granillo murder a fellow student, they place the body in a wooden chest. In a macabre twist the pair invite some acquaintances, including the dead man's father, to a party where the chest and its gruesome contents serve as a supper table. As the horror and tension reaches a climax, will the two murderers' nerve hold out or will the suspicious Rupert Cadell discover their ghastly secret? Premiered in 1929, and later adapted as a film by Alfred Hitchcock.

Cast/Performers

Bertie Carvel (Rupert Cadell), Emma Dewhurst (Mrs Debenham), Michael Elwyn (Sir Johnstone Kentley), Henry Lloyd Hughes (Kenneth Raglan), Blake Ritson (Wyndham Brandon), Alex Waldmann (Charles Granillo), Pheobe Waller-Bridge (Leila Arden)

Creatives/Company

Author: Patrick Hamilton
Corporate Sponsor: Coutts & Co
Producer: The Almeida (in association with Sonia Friedman Productions)
Director: Roger Michell
Design: Mark Thompso
Lighting: Rick Fisher
Sound: John Leonard