Described as “the world’s greatest thriller”,Sleuth was written by Anthony Shaffer, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was, perhaps most famously, made into a film in 1972 starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.
This new touring version, which is on at the Cambridge Arts Theatre this week, stars Neil McDermott – who is probably best known as Ryan Malloy in EastEnders – as Milo Tindle and Todd Boyce, of Coronation Street fame, as Andrew Wyke.
The play is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, whose many credits include working with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
With an excellent set creating just the right country house atmosphere, Boyce gets the proceedings off to a bright start, his aristocratic character’s eccentric behaviour setting the scene for the mayhem that’s to follow.
