THE Rose Theatre’s resident group, the Nonentities, return to stage next week with ‘Murdered to Death’.

This hilarious spoof of the best Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight - Bunting the drunken butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling police inspector and local sleuth ‘Miss Maple’ who seems to attract murder wherever she goes.

All the characters are caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house owner.

It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet - but will the murder be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will the audiences die laughing first?

‘Murdered to Death’ is at the Rose Theatre between Monday (January 23) and Saturday, January 28.

Tickets are priced at £10 on Monday, £12 on Tuesday to Thursday, and £13 on Friday and Saturday.

To book tickets, call the box office on 01562 743745 or visit rosetheatre.co.uk.