Cluedo - A New Play - UK Tour

Being a huge fan of the film, I really wanted to like this - but sadly even with lowered expectations I didn't enjoy it at all.

I agree with vdcni :
My biggest criticism is that it feels like they've used 'Goes Wrong' style fourth wall breaking humour in a play that really doesn't need it. For example, the set was good with its hidden pull-out sections, but it seemed very silly having the actors moving all the furniture and making a point of it - that just took me out of the play entirely.

I have a question though that's been bugging me, hopefully someone can help. Shortly into Act 2 there's a scene where Wadsworth and Mrs White are approaching the bedrooms, deliberately slowly because they're suspicious of each other. At the performance I attended (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), someone shouted "Someone make a move, I'm desperate for the loo!" (or similar). Is this part of the show and spoken by one of the characters off-stage, or was that a particularly rude audience member heckling?

I'd also be intrigued to know if Colonel Mustard's moustache falls off every night. Fake corpsing is my personal theatrical bête noire and I suspect it's in play here!

I’ve moved the wider discussion about audience deceit here theatreboard.co.uk/thread/9459/

After Jamie, two weeks of Six, Bat and Cher, normal service resumes at Sheffield's Lyceum this week.

Although they're both 'above the title', I'm not sure why Michelle Collins' name is twice the size of Daniel Casey's. Surely his name is the one that is more recognisable to whodunnit fans?

Looks like this is getting a sequel!!

Cluedo 2 - The Next Chapter is playing Theatre Royal Brighton next March.

www.atgtickets.com/shows/cluedo-2-the-next-chapter/theatre-royal-brighton/

The first one just wasn't funny - maybe Marks and Grann can wring some laughs out of the concept but they haven't been funny for a couple of decades either.

And that looks an odd choice for Broadway too!

Cluedo 2

A 60s rock star is murdered, his master tapes are missing, the house is full of suspects who funnily enough all have names relating to colours and there is also an actor/butler. Whodunnit?

Burn it, burn it again, then take it out into the forest and bury it. Then burn the forest and nuke it from space.

Utter garbage from Marks and Gran who appear to have lost the ability to write comedy. All you have in this are,

One really good gag about Lulu.
One really good sight gag with a cushion as one character is murdered.

Outside of that its utter crap. A comedy should contain some jokes - across 100 minutes I'd expect to be laugh/chuckle/smirk a lot more than I did. The first Cluedo play was the film on stage and sort of worked if you knew the film but with an all new plot here its fails to get off the ground at all in the funny bone area. As mentioned by sam22 its got a LOOOOOOONG set up until the murdering starts and what we are seeing isn't funny and for a murder mystery it also totally fails to raise any tension or drama. We've got a group of actors flailing about lost in a sea of mediocrity.

Jason Durr once of Heartbeat fame is the name in the cast, here playing Col. Mustard - and as the victims are being bumped off in the home of 60s rock star he's playing it American in a HO HO BLOODY HO subtle dig at Elvis and Col Parker and he's terrible, the accent is awful and I struggled to make out a lot of his lines from the Stalls. I would say this Elvis gag is the pinnacle of the wit on display but Rev. Green is Rev. HAL Green and the first act consists of nothing more than people confusing him (and quoting) AL Green. HA HA HA HA HA or not as the case is.

The rest of the cast wasn't anyone I knew or recognised although the same actor does get to play the first 2 people that are murdered and then later pops back at the finale to be murdered again! No one is coming out of this with any credit.

The utterly leaden direction kills a whole host of gags, there is a nice bit of direction towards the end as they chase one of the characters round the house (thinking they are after the murderer) but by then its far too late to inject pace into this clunker. And I know we weren't there for the murder mystery but anyone with even a hint of the Poirot about them will be able to work out the ending.

Badly acted, badly written, badly directed, a set design that screams "this'll do" and not one single redeeming feature.

You'll end up wanting to be hit over the head by a candlestick/shot/ poisoned etc etc than sit through this nonsense.

I saw the first one in Brighton in 2022 and really did not enjoy it. As I left the theatre, a couple were talking about how hilarious they found it and how it was well worth the £40 each they'd spent. I couldn't quite believe it, I'd only spent £13 and regretted it.

Anyway, the second one is coming to Worthing this year as well as Brighton and the local cinema has been showing adverts for it. Tours rarely come to Worthing so I really would love to show my support, but from the advert I think it looks worse. I normally will give anything a chance and it's rare that I really dislike something so I almost feel guilty for not going!