Following sell-out performances in the West End and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and a successful 2025 tour, A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception returns for a UK tour in 2027.
The hit show is presented by Shoddy Theatre and The Production Garden, in association with Chelmsford Theatre and Midnight Lotus Productions.
Shoddy Theatre’s founding cast members Mitch Donaldson and Becky Bartram return to the roles of Lord Raeburn and Lady Raeburn, with Ben Thornton as Detective Pidcock, Oliver Holland as Dusty Wills and Georgia Ashford-Miller and Thomas Cove as understudies.
A laugh-out-loud slapstick whodunnit featuring four actors, a dozen characters and a whole load of chaos, the comedy production has been taking the country by storm. When a priceless painting goes missing at a private auction, Detective Stuart Pidcock is called upon to uncover the mystery. However, when he cannot solve it himself, he is forced to enlist the help of an old nemesis. Together, the pair must interrogate the many characterful suspects that reside at the manor, in order to catch the conniving culprit and solve the crime of the century!