Details

Brandon is prepared to go to any lengths to inject some excitement into his life. When he and his impressionable friend Granillo murder a fellow student, they place the body in a wooden chest. In a macabre twist the pair invite some acquaintances, including the dead man's father, to a party where the chest and its gruesome contents serve as a supper table. As the horror and tension reaches a climax, will the two murderers' nerve hold out or will the suspicious Rupert Cadell discover their ghastly secret? Premiered in 1929, and later adapted as a film by Alfred Hitchcock.

Cast/Performers

Felix Callens (Sabot), Virginia Denham (Mrs Debenham), Jake Harders (Charles Granillo), Jennifer Higham (Leila Arden), Jeremy Joyce (Kenneth Raglan), Edmund Kingsley (Rupert Cadell), Nicholas Lumley (Sir Johnstone Kentley), Gyuri Sarossy (Wyndham Brandon)

Creatives/Company

Author: Patrick Hamilton
Producer: The Watermill
Director: Tom Daley
Design: Lucy Osborne
Lighting: David Holmes