Sleuth
10th February 2024
Tickets from £23.50
Running time approx 2 hours 5 minutes
Age guidance: 12+
Content warnings: Mild swearing
Production warnings: Gunshots, explosions with smoke
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Todd Boyce (Coronation Street’s notorious baddie, Stephen Reid) and Neil McDermott (EastEnders, The Royal) star in Anthony Shaffer’s masterpiece, directed by award-winning Rachel Kavanaugh (RSC/Chichester Festival Theatre).
A young man arrives at the impressive home of a famous mystery writer (Boyce),
only to be unwittingly drawn into a tangled web of intrigue and gamesmanship, where nothing is quite as it seems…
This dark psychological ‘thriller about thrillers’ makes for an intriguing study of human conflict, jealousy and manipulation, proving to be far more than a ‘whodunit’, it promises to baffle even the most proficient sleuth!
Sleuth is one of the greatest ever stage thrillers and played for a total of 12 years in both London and New York. Winning the Tony Award for Best Play, it also became the inspiration for the hugely successful film starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.
Todd is a seasoned actor of stage and screen, now in the fifth decade of a varied and impressive career.
He began the journey by immediately joining an Australian soap upon graduating from high school – to play a character who was attending his last year of high school!
He was then accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
Amongst his standout parts on stage, Todd would count Larry in Burn This (with Sydney Theatre Company – for which he was nominated for the Critics Circle Award), Jeeter in Last of the Boys (at Southwark Playhouse) and Michael Shaun-Hastings in Late Company (Finborough/Trafalgar Studios).
He’s also enjoyed working at the Orange Tree Theatre, the Young Vic and Birmingham Rep to name just a few.
On film, he’s worked with many renowned directors including Tim Burton, Tony Scott, James Ivory, Matthew Vaughn and Kenneth Branagh – and he played Pip in Tim Burstall’s version of Great Expectations back in 1986.
On television, credits include Sherlock, The Crown, Mr Selfridge, Alex Rider and Beaver Falls, for which he’s garnered quite a following. To many, however, he’s best known for playing Stephen Reid in Coronation Street.
Joining the show originally in 1996 as Audrey’s long-lost son, he made several appearances over the years – but it was his latest stint that solidified his place in the annals of soap history when his character became the show’s resident serial killer. For this role, he won the Inside Soap Award for Best Villain, voted for by the audience, and he was nominated for Villain of the Year at the 2023 British Soap Awards
THEATRE INCLUDES: Prince in Sleeping Beauty (Bath Theatre Royal), Johnny in Home I’m Darling (BKL / National Theatre), Major Mario Carita in Glory Ride (The Other Palace), Philip in Pretty Woman: The Muical (ATG), Robert in Club Tropicana (No.1 UK Tour), Evil Lord Hector in Eugenius (The Other Palace), Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (No. 1 UK Tour), Chief Weasel in Julian Fellowes’ The Wind in the Willows at the London Palladium, and Johan in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (The Ambassadors).
He also write and performed in the role of Figgy for The Elf Who Was Scared of Christmas (Tarento Productions – The Charing Cross Theatre).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Ryan Malloy in EastEnders, plus Casualty, Doctor Who, Doctors, George Gently, The Royal, Kiss of Death, and Rosemary and Thyme.