Murder at Midnight
It’s New Year’s Eve in rural Kent, and Jonny “The Cyclops” has decided to throw a party. But amidst the drinking, music and fireworks exploding overhead, a twisted trail of clues emerges. As midnight looms, tarot cards foretell doom, police lights flash in the distance and a killer is in the house.
Everyone’s hiding something—but who’s telling the truth?
From the mind of acclaimed writer Torben Betts, Murder at Midnight stars blending razor-sharp wit with chilling suspense to keep you guessing until the final stroke of midnight.
Starring national favourites Jason Durr (Heartbeat, Casualty), Susie Blake (Victoria Wood’s as Seen on TV, Coronation Street) and Max Bowden, (best known for his role as Ben Mitchell in EastEnders)
Venue
Presented by
Original Theatre, Joshua Beaumont & Huw Allen
Written by
Torben Betts
Directed by
Philip Franks
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Audio Described: Sat 20 Sep 2.30pm
A Free Touch Tour is available to book at 1pm before the Audio Described performance.
Captioned: Wed 17 Sep 7.30pm
Age Guidance
14+
Please note, no under 5s will be admitted to the auditorium.
Cast
Jason Durr
After training at LAMDA Jason headed straight to Stratford and the Royal Shakespeare Company, working with director Trevor Nunn in Measure For Measure and The Blue Angel, followed by Macbeth directed by Adrian Noble.
Some of Jason’s other theatre credits include: Louis in Losing Louis (Hampstead Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Guy in Volcano (West End – Vaudeville Theatre), Tony Blair in Follow my Leader (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Sherlock in Sherlock Holmes – The Best Kept Secret (West Yorkshire Playhouse and UK Tour), Matthew in Contact.com (Park Theatre), Hercule Poirot in Black Coffee (Theatre Royal Windsor and UK Tour), Zack in A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible), Vince in Way Up Stream (Chichester Festival Theatre), Colonel Mustard in Cluedo 2 (Tour), Nick in Wrong Side of The Rainbow (Donmar Warehouse), Ben in The Destiny Of Me (Haymarket Theatre), Quine in Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre)
TV credits include: Above Suspicion, Inspector Morse, Midsummer Murders, Lewis, New Tricks, Numb3rs, Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Blue Geranium, Mysterious Island, The Paradise Club, Femme Fatale, Medics, Summer Solstice, Christmas, A Dark Adapted Eye, Fooling Hitler, Winter Solstice, Sharpe’s Battle, Iphigenia at Aulis, Bugs, Gawain And The Green Knight, The Chief, Jupiter Moon, Heartbeat, Holby City, Casualty and Shakespeare and Hathaway.
Film credits include: Young Soul Rebels,The Killer Tongue,True True Lie, and Down Dog.
Susie Blake
Theatre includes: Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Dominion Theatre & Hall for Cornwall); My Fair Lady (Grange Festival); The Mirror Crack’d (UK Tour); Some Mothers Do Av Em (UK Tour); Murder Margaret and Me (York Theatre Royal); Grumpy Old Women Live 3 (UK Tour); Cider with Rosie (UK Tour); Aladdin (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest A New Musical (Riverside Studios); When We Are Married (Garrick Theatre); Pygmalion (Chichester Festival Theatre); Grumpy Old Women Live 2 (UK Tour and Novello Theatre); Bertha in Boeing, Boeing (on Tour); Snake in the Grass and Life and Beth (Stephen Joseph Theatre and on Tour); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); High Society (UK Tour); Noises Off (National Theatre); A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum (Regents Park Theatre); Virtual Reality (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Shakespeare Revue (RSC); Absent Friends (West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Lyric, Hammersmith); Prin (Lyric, Hammersmith); Blithe Spirit (Royal Exchange).
Television includes: Silky Hotel for BBC iPlayer; Kate & Koji (Series 1&2) for ITV; Not Going Out for BBC One; The Real Marigold Hotel for BBC One, Casualty for BBC One, Murder on the Blackpool Express for UKTV, The Cockfields for BBC Cuckoo (Series 3); New Tricks for BBC; You, Me and Them for UKTV Gold; Murder on the Homefront for Carnival Film and Television; Mrs Brown’s Boys (Series 3&2) for BBC; Series regular Beverley Unwin in Coronation Street for ITV. Great Night Out for ITV; Parents for Sky; The Crossing for BBC; House of Rooms for Channel 4; Doctors for BBC; Judith in Wild At Heart for ITV; Eve Beckett in Roger for BBC; Mrs Buchanan in Sunburn for BBC; Beverley in two series of A Prince Among Men for BBC; Louise in April Fools’ Day for ITV; Eleven Men Against Eleven for Channel 4; Wake up with… for ITV; Susan Hopkins in A Year in Provence for the BBC; Fay Morgan in The Wail of The Banshee for Central TV; Mrs Jerebohm in The Darling Buds Of May for YTV; Blore for BBC 4; 4 Series of Singles for YTV and The Victoria Wood Show for BBC.
Film includes: Nativity 3 and Fierce Creatures with John Cleese.
Max Bowden
Max just finished starring in Midnight Cowboy at Southwark Playhouse playing the iconic role of Ratso. Prior to this he starred in the national tour of Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks’s epic tale of love and loss, returning to the stage in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the internationally best-selling novel, playing the role of Jack Firebrace.
He is best known for playing series regular ‘Ben Mitchell’ in BBC One’s long-running series, Eastenders, from 2019 -2024.
Before that, he played a leading role in season 10 of the first incarnation of the BAFTA nominated popular drama, Waterloo Road on BBC One.
His theatre credits include: Elegies For Punks & Raging Queens at Charing Cross Theatre, Only The Brave at Soho Theatre, in addition to roles in Punk Rock and Billy Elliot.
Creatives
Director
Philip Franks
Philip Franks
Writer