Following the success of the critically acclaimed BBC tv collection Daniel Schumann and Lee Dean at the moment announce the return to the stage of Ian Rankin’s much-loved detective Rebus, within the stage manufacturing of Rebus: A Game Called Malice by Ian Rankin and Simon Reade, with Gray O’Brien within the title function. The play centres round a homicide thriller sport, however with rising suspicions
The present visits Glasgow on the Pavilion Theatre from 23 – 27 September 2024
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Loveday Ingram directs Gray O’Brien (John Rebus), Abigail Thaw (Stephanie Jeffries) and Billy Hartman (Jack Fleming).
“IT’S THE PUZZLE THAT DRAWS YOU IN & ‘REBUS: A GAME CALLED MALICE’ HAS ITS FAIR SHARE OF UNPREDICTABILITY AND INTRIGUE” The Times
A splendid ceremonial dinner in an Edinburgh mansion concludes with a homicide thriller sport created by the hostess. A homicide must be solved. But the friends have secrets and techniques of their very own, threatened by the very sport they’re taking part in. And amongst them is Inspector John Rebus. True crime is his calling. Is he taking part in another sport, one to which solely he is aware of the foundations? There are suspects, clues and hazard with each twist and switch – and a stunning discovery will ship this sport known as ‘Malice’ hurtling in the direction of a gasp-inducing conclusion.
Ian Rankin is the multimillion-copy award-winning bestseller of over thirty novels worldwide and creator of John Rebus. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have been tailored for radio, the stage and the display. His Rebus novels have dominated the detective fiction market with the latest BBC tv collection making certain the detective’s legendary standing.
Perhaps finest recognized for his roles in Coronation Street, Peak Practice and Casualty, Gray O’Brien performs John Rebus. His theatre credit embrace Educating Rita (Perth Theatre), Catch Me If You Can, The Case of the Frightened Lady, The Sound of Music, Dead Simple (UK tour), Sleuth (Apollo Theatre), The Magistrate (Pitlochry Festival Theatre). Television credit embrace Coronation Street (as collection common Tony Gordon), Casualty (as collection common Richard McCaid), Peak Practice (as collection common Dr Tom Deneley), Shakespeare and Hathaway, The Loch, Titanic – Blood and Steel and Doctor Who – Voyage of the Damned. Film credit embrace The Wasting and The Daniel Connection.
Billy Hartman returns to the function of Jack Fleming, having created it for the stage in 2023. His different theatre credit embrace Gypsy (Savoy Theatre), The Confessions of Gordon Brown (Traverse Theatre and Scottish tour), The Little Match Girl (Orange Tree Theatre), Homework (Battersea Arts Centre), and Oliver! (Sadlers’ Wells). Television credit embrace Emmerdale (as collection common as Terry Woods), Dal Y Mellt, The Trick, Keeping Faith, Pobol Y Cwm, In Suspicious Circumstances, 99-1 and A Touch of Frost.
Perhaps finest recognized for her function in Endeavour, Abigail Thaw performs Stephanie Jeffries. Her theatre credit embrace Anthropology, The Strange Death of John Doe (Hampstead Theatre), Julius Caesar (Sheffield Crucible), The Cutting of the Cloth (Southwark Playhouse), Juliet and her Romeo (Bristol Old Vic) and Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe and BAM Harvey Theater, NYC). Her tv credit embrace Endeavour (as collection common Dorothea Frazil), Miss Scarlet and the Duke, Sister Boniface and The Nevers. Film credit embrace The Penny Dropped and The Inbetweeners 2.
Loveday Ingram’s directing credit embrace Dinner with Groucho (Dublin Theatre Festival, Belfast International Festival and Arcola Theatre), The Girl on the Train (Salisbury Playhouse) The Rover (RSC), Fatal Attraction (UK tour), My One and Only, Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Blue Room (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Liverpool Playhouse), Julius Caesar (Storyhouse Theatre), Boston Marriage, Hysteria (Dublin). Additional directing credit embrace the unique Assistant Director for Mamma Mia! and Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her writing credit embrace a brief movie chosen to signify Women’s Aid internationally for the marketing campaign for Elimination of Violence Against Women.
