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.