A Bitter & Twisted Cocktail
A Bitter & Twisted Cocktail is a new murder mystery comedy, written by Tim Johnson and set the glorious music of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas. Performances were from 22 to 26 October, 2024.
It is 1937 on the French Riviera and the last descendants of the Wise and Fogbound families have gathered following the death of Alexis, head of the family temperance brewing business. Bearing the will and the fates of all those assembled is his executor, the newly retired Inspector Lawless. Suddenly, he finds himself between a rock and cleft stick as the will is stolen and echoes of the past step out from the shadows. Inspector Lawless is soon at the centre of his most difficult case and the truth he uncovers hangs around his neck like a Sword of Damocles. Can he find a Gordian knot in the haystack in time? Will tragedy strike again? Do you think you can grasp the situation and solve the complicated plot before he does?
Patricia Head as Frances Fogbound 
Philip Hickson as Commissaire Citroen
Joan Self as Doris Fogbound and Tracy Humphreys as the Maid 
Paul Mocroft as Lester Learn
