Dead Ringer, September 2012

Ian Dickens Productions International Ltd presents the witty thriller ‘Dead Ringer’ with a star cast led by Chris Ellison (Frank Burnside in the Bill) with Tony Adams who became a household name as Adam Chance in the long running soap opera ‘Crossroads’, Keith Drinkel who played Liz Macdonald’s dodgy boyfriend Bob in ‘Coronation Street’; Joanne Heywood – Miss Lovelock in ‘Grace and Favour’ and popular stage actor David Callister.

Menace and murder in high places.

When the Prime Minister drops dead from an apparent heart attack on the eve of a general election, two cabinet ministers who fear they need his charisma to get re-elected hire an out of work actor to replace the deceased. This dead ringer is supposed to fill in until after the election is won but he grows to like the role until he discovers that the real PM was poisoned. This thriller plunges from early amusing fantasy into murder and dark plots.

Laced with humour throughout, Dead Ringer is, at its heart, a murder mystery and one which will keep the audience guessing right up to the moment of the explosive conclusion.

6 performances including Saturday matinee