A crack of thunder and a lightning flash reveal the silhouette of the gothic Boddy Manor behind billowing curtains. Yvette, the French maid (Lib Campbell), bends suggestively with her feather duster until a hilarious Miss Trunchbull-like cook (Octavia Barron-Martin) flashes her oversized knife, accompanied by a jazz-noir dum-de-dum-dum. It’s Cluedo, and the game is afoot!

Director Luke Joslin and producer John Frost have brilliantly recreated Jonathan Lynn’s cheesy 1985 whodunnit film Clue – inspired by the popular Hasbro board game Cluedo, which has to date sold over 150 million copies. I have nine versions alone!

Olivia Barron-Martin, Grant Piro, Rachael Beck and Lib Campbell in Cluedo. Photo © Jeff Busby

Six guests with dubious pasts and pseudonyms arrive for dinner in 1949 with the cool Mr Boddy (Joshua Monaghan) for a night of mayhem and madcap murders. Grant Piro, as Wadsworth the butler who buttles, is the snooty host manipulating each guest through blackmail. Piro wisely downplays Tim Curry’s infamous character in Clue, instead hamming up a prolonged death scene with aplomb, thrashing and moaning. His sped-up replay...