A Ring of Untruths
A Ring of Untruths is a new murder mystery comedy, written by Tim Johnson and set to the glorious music of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas. Performances will be from 25 to 28 March, 2026.
It is 1938 in a fashionable casino on the North Coast of France, and the survivors of our previous comedy murder mystery have reassembled just over year since the dramatic events of A Bitter & Twisted Cocktail. A prolific jewel thief steals a priceless Egyptian ring from under the noses of the French police. An eminent archaeologist has a dark secret but a wealthy heiress has a score to settle with him. A movie director casts a fading film star and a famous aviatrix in his new movie despite them being bitter rivals for his affections. Where nothing is as it seems, everything has a Ring of Untruths. Will the keen eye and long arm of Inspector Lawless ensure the murderer is dragged out on his ear? Join us to find out!
Meanwhile…
Thank you to all our lovely supporters for making our productions of A Bitter & Twisted Cocktail in October 2024 and A Very Curious Poison in April 2023 such huge successes. Our performances in Bromsgrove, Stratford-upon-Avon and Henley-in-Arden gave us full houses and amazing audience reactions, and raised thousands of pounds for worthy causes along the way.
This followed our performances in March and May 2022 of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, his classic comedy about the crazy things people do for love and money. Really positive audience reactions and another £2,000 pounds raised for charities in Henley-in-Arden and Bromsgrove were great rewards for all our hard work as we emerged from Covid lock-downs.
Consensus Opera was founded by Tim and Claire Johnson in 2007 with the aim of bringing the best local actors and singers together to perform works combining drama with high quality operatic music, whilst at the same time raising money for worthy charitable causes.
The desire to bring operatic music in a truly dramatic setting to a wider audience is a major part of this philosophy, which we have pursued by taking our highly accessible performances to several local venues around Stratford-upon-Avon and the Cotswolds.
Consensus Opera also performs variety and review evenings combining a mixture of songs, sketches, monologues and comedy items, interspersed with your favourite Songs from the Shows and Light Opera favourites
A Bitter & Twisted Cocktail
- Play: Tim Johnson
- Music: Sullivan
- Date: October 2024
A Very Curious Poison
- Play: Tim Johnson
- Music: Sullivan
- Date: April 2023
Cosi fan Tutte
- Libretto: Da Ponte
- Music: WA Mozart
- Date: March 2022
She Stoops to Conquer
- Play: Goldsmith
- Music: Mozart
- Date: October 2016
The Importance of Being Earnest
- Play: Wilde
- Music: Porter, Gershwin, Kern
- Date: October 2015
The Rivals
- Play: Sheridan
- Music: Mozart
- Date: June 2014
