Having not too long ago acquired the celebrated acclaim of being Her Majesty the Queen’s favorite literary Detective, Superintendent Roy Grace is again on stage at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal in 2025, the one Scottish date of a model new main six-month UK tour – Picture You Dead – tailored from the UK’s primary crime author Peter James‘ bestselling novel. Picture You Dead is the seventh Peter James ebook to be tailored for the stage by award-winning author Shaun McKenna.
Roy Grace is against the law fiction phenomenon – the books have offered over 23 million copies worldwide, been beforehand tailored for six vastly profitable stage productions, and ITV’s critically acclaimed primetime drama concerning the Brighton-based detective, GRACE, is a rankings smash-hit. Season 4 of the crime collection will broadcast later this 12 months, with season 5 presently in manufacturing.
Peter James mentioned: “From early childhood, I have always passionately loved live theatre and the sense of the shared experience that comes with it – surprise, suspense, shock, laughter and the entire range of human emotions. With Josh Andrews’ brilliant producing, Shaun McKenna’s very clever adaptation and Jonathan O’Boyle’s masterly and inventive directing, I’m confident that Picture You Dead is going to be my best adaptation yet and I hope everyone who comes to see it will have a fantastic time!”
Back residence in Brighton, DSI Grace investigates a chilly case that leads him to the rarified air of nice artwork, however beneath the respectable veneer lurks a darkish underworld of greed, deception and homicide. When one unsuspecting couple unearth a probably long-lost masterpiece, they uncover that their dream discover is about to show into their worst nightmare and solely Grace can cease them from paying the final word value.
Peter James has 20 Sunday Times primary bestselling crime novels to his identify. The world premiere tour of Picture You Dead marks the most recent thrilling theatre adaptation of his books and is as soon as once more produced by Joshua Andrews and Peter James. Directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, it cements the diversifications of James’ Grace books, as essentially the most profitable modern-day crime franchise on stage, since Agatha Christie.
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