Right from the moment guests arrived they were transported back to the 1950s as jolly classical music played in the theatre. Spider's Web was originally performed at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham on September 27, 1954, and the play's performance almost 70 years later proves it is timeless.
The Agatha Christie play follows the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, and seems to have him and everyone else wrapped around her finger. However, when she discovers a body in her drawing-room, Clarissa calls upon her house guests to help hide the body before her husband returns with an important foreign politician.
Lara Lemon did a fantastic job as Clarissa, and Juliette Stitches had me in stitches with her witty comments as 'Pippa'. Although Susan Earnshaw as Miss Peake stole the show at moments, with her brilliant portrayal of the eccentric gardener and secret partner of the late home owner.
