Here are some excerpts from another review of Mystery Radio Theatre:

 

“Mystery Radio Theatre is comedy at its most traditional, old fashioned and in some ways this is truly alternative comedy at the festival and it’s a refreshing palate cleanser.

The Cast of Mystery Radio Theatre are ambitiously staging three different radio plays during the MICF. All of them involving murder but sending up different genres. This one Whodiddendunnit is a send up of an Agatha Christie style murder mystery in a big old mansion with a butler, an inheritance, every one having a motive and a re-appearance of a long lost son.

The best thing about Mystery Radio Theatre was the performances of the actors dressed in formal black with the chaps in bow ties.  The highlight being Anna Renzenbrink in two roles, both as dotty Aunt Agatha and keen scullery boy cum detective side kick Tommy.

I also particularly enjoyed the narrator and host who sounded like Bela Lugosi, the characters of Hodges the butler cum detective and dippy son Teddy though everyone else was lots of fun too. The author/director James Hazelden (of musical comedy trio Man Bites God) managed to brilliantly play nasty Pater Gerald and do some of the music background effects as well. A lovely touch, was the musical interlude and advert at half time just like a real radio play. Both were excellent.

This was a very slick production, well written and acted with plenty of laughs. If you are also a fan of 40s film noir or Enid Blyton you might with to check out the other Radio Mystery Plays Murder Me Again, My Darling and The Adventure of Smuggler’s Cove”

 

Lisa Clark –  Squirrel Comedy

 

These are excerpts from the review. The complete review is here.