A “gripping” new version of Frederick Knott’s masterpiece Dial M for Murder is calling audiences to the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
The plot involves former tennis pro Tony Wendice wanting to have his wife murdered so that he can get his hands on her money. He arranges the perfect murder. He blackmails a man he used to know into strangling her and arranges an alibi for himself. But not everything goes as planned.
The cast comprises Nicole Bartlett (Sheila), Paul Brendan (Hubbard), Daniel Easton (Max), William Ellis (Tony) and Rob Heanley (Lesgate).
Peter Leslie Wild, who directed Brendan Murray’s Seeing the Lights at the New Vic in 2015 and Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee’s Inherit the Wind in 2014, directs Dial M for Murder.
Designer is Lis Evans, lighting designer is Daniella Beattie and sound designer is James Earls-Davis.
Dial M for Murder runs at the Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round from Friday 28 April until Saturday 20 May.