This comedy features a group of lawyers away for an important weekend conference. Hugo Barnes desperately wants to be a High Court Judge and has organised the conference - under the title 'Clean up the Bar' - to impress the new Lord Chancellor. Hugo's friend and married colleague, Nick Willmott, has invited a young solicitors' secretary along for the weekend. This decision threatens Nick's marriage, Hugo's plans for a trouble-free conference and both their reputations. Misunderstandings, narrow escapes and attemped sexual infidelity combine with an unusual undercurrent of family reconciliation and personal discovery.

This new supernatural thriller is set in a theatre that has been closed for sixty years following the accidental death of a child during rehearsals for Murder by Poison, a Victorian thriller. Now Micky, the great-grandson of the theatre's original owner, has set about restoring the theatre to the glory of its former heyday, and to cap his plans he's intent on reviving the very same play to re-open the renovated theatre. Only Micky's elderly and eccentric father William knows the truth of what happened all those years ago. He tries to warn Micky that the play is doomed and urges him to abandon his plans, but Micky ignores the warning - and as rehearsals progress, unusual and mysterious occurrences begin to mount with deadly and terrifying consequences.

This intriguing, multi-layered, witty thriller for two men and two women is full of unexpected twists. A Russian doll of a play, it moves from a seemingly innocuous domestic playreading through a murder mystery in the classic style, to a final terrifying and violent climax. It was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004 and subsequently presented to critical acclaim at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2006.