Perfect Crime by Warren Manzi is the third play to be presented as part of the Summer Play Festival at the Manor Pavilion, directed by Anton Tweedale and opening on Monday, July 8.

Anton is a veteran of the annual Season, having first appeared as an actor in Sidmouth in 2015 when he played the love-struck Vicar in Ayckbourn’s Joking Apart. Since 2021 he has also been directing the plays including California Suite and last year’s Ayckbourn trilogy Damsels in Distress. Currently in rehearsal, Anton said about the play: “Perfect Crime is an intricate puzzle box of a play that I hope will keep audiences guessing right up to the final reveal. As a life-long thriller fan I’m very excited to be bringing “New York’s answer to The Mousetrap” to the Manor Pavilion with a fantastic cast featuring an array of West End talent. It has been running for 37 years in New York and is full of twists and turns with a lovely vein of dark, gallows humour running through it.”

The multi-level mystery focuses on psychiatrist-turned-author Margaret Thorne Brent, her eccentric wealthy husband, her patient (who may or may not have psychopathic leanings), and the police inspector who is increasingly fixated on her and figuring out who the ‘Baseball Bat Killer’ is who has been plaguing their affluent small town.

Full details can be found at https://www.manorpavilion.com/whats-on