Review-Picture You Dead at The Alexandra Birmingham

Picture You Dead will make you have your best detective hat on and will also make you check your great Aunt’s oil paintings! As it’s a police matter, I must confess to not reading any of Peter James books! But now I’m hooked as it was a fantastic show which had me gripped from the beginning to the end.

The show tells the story of a lovely everyday couple, the Kipling’s played by Fiona Wade and Ben Cutler who have a painting that may or may not be a master piece. They take advice from a local painter Dave Hegarty acted by Mark Oxtoby on what they should do…..

A very rich art collector Stuart Piper acted by Ore Oduba hears about the potential master piece and wants to know more so he asks his adviser Roberta Kilgore acted by Jodie Steele to make inquiries.

The police are working on a cold case that has links to the art world and Inspector Roy Grace is on the trail. Acted superbly by George Rainsford who very cleverly started to unravel a very tangle web of lies, deceit and murder.

If you’ve read the book or not you will thoroughly enjoy this show that will have you wondering who’s doing what? who can you trust? and does money really bring you happiness?! A very clever show that will have you wanting more and throws in a few laughs along the way. All the cast were superb and the stage setting was very clever, the way the stage transformed to do different rooms for the scenes, enhanced the viewing experience.

Josh Andews Productions &  Peter James

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Hot on the heels of the latest instalment of the acclaimed ITV Series GRACE, Superintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead.

Starring Strictly Come Dancing winner, presenter and stage actor Ore Oduba (Pretty Woman), Fiona Wade, who starred this year in 2:22 A Ghost Story, following 12 years in Emmerdale and with Casualty’s George Rainsford (Call the Midwife, 2:22 A Ghost Story) returning as DSI Roy Grace.

With a total of 20 Sunday Times best sellers to his name, Picture You Dead, the seventh thrilling stage adaption, cements Peter James’s Grace Series as the most successful modern-day crime stage franchise since Agatha Christie.