Cluedo is one of the most popular board games in history. Invented by musician Anthony E.Pratt nearly 80 years ago as a way of relieving boredom during WW2 air raid blackouts, the idea for Murder! as it was first called, and then Clue, came from murder mystery parties at English country estates, at which Pratt would play the piano.
A hit film 'Clue' followed many years later in 1985 and tonight we get to see all that murderous action on stage in the brand new Cluedo stage play. Directed by Mark Bell, who also directed The Play That Goes Wrong, the action is set at the country house of, wait for it - Boddy Manor, owned by Lord Boddy.
No sooner have the colourful - in more ways than one - dinner guests Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, Mrs Peacock, Reverend Green, Mrs White and Colonel Mustard set foot through the creaky doors than the inhabitants begin to dwindle in number. Done away with by a murderer aided by an assortment of handy household weapons.
