Cast and creative team announced for THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER at the Watermill

The full cast and creative team have been announced for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – the world premiere stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale’s vivid and gripping best-selling non-fiction thriller - that will run at The Watermill Theatre from 5 May-10 June

Summer 1860, an elegant country house, a young boy is found dead in an outside privy. All clues point towards the murderer being a member of the grieving household. But which one?

Called to the scene is the most celebrated detective of his day, Jonathan Whicher from Scotland Yard. Faced with an inept local police force, a middle-class family ravaged by secrets, and a lack of evidence, will he be able to solve the case?

This original Victorian whodunit becomes a battle of wits between the professional detective and the only one who knows what really happened. In this fresh re-telling, fact and fiction bleed into each other, and the Truth becomes something to be fought over.

Adapted by Alexandra Wood and directed by Kate Budgen, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher will star Christopher Naylor (The Woman in Black, West End) as Jonathan Whicher, Eleanor Wyld (Leopoldstadt, West End) as Constance, Connie Walker (The Taxidermist's Daughter, Chichester Festival Theatre) as Mrs Kent, Jim Creighton (Skylight, National Theatre) as Mr Kent, Sam Liu (Ted Lasso, Apple TV) as William, and Robyn Sinclair (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, West End and tour) as Gough.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher will be directed by Kate Budgen, with design by Amy Jane Cook, lighting by Katy Morison, projection design by Rachel Sampley, and sound design and composition by Beth Duke.

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