Courtney Act, Monét X Change and Vinegar Strokes star in the all-drag murder mystery now playing at London’s Garrick Theatre.
Death Drop is one of the most ridiculous plays we’ve ever witnessed on the West End stage – and that’s quite a feat given all the over-the-top shows we’ve covered. Written by Holly Stars, the play is set in 1991, on the night of Charles and Diana’s 10th wedding anniversary. The preposterously-named Lady von Fistenberg (Vinegar Strokes) has invited half a dozen celebrity guests to her manor on Tuck Island for a meal in honour of the royal couple. Over the course of the evening, one by one, the guests start to drop dead – or rather, do a death drop. Can we guess who the murderer might be?
3/5
This Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery at the Garrick is like nothing else you re likely to have seen, and may well make you yelp with glee
11 December 2020 • 12:41pm
Death Drop, at the Garrick
Credit: Alastair Muir
“This show is like nothing you’ve seen on the West End stage ever before!” Normally I’d immediately discount – never mind avoid quoting – this kind of PR hyperbole, but for once the novelty-factor here is off the scale. The tagline for Death Drop (reanimating the Garrick, along with family show Potted Panto) is that it’s “A Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery”. In other words, picture The Mousetrap gaily crossed with a subculture of outlandish cross-dressing and supremely arch artifice.