STAGE WHAT A CARVE UP!

★★★★ whatacarveup.com until November 29

In these troubled times, you can’t go wrong with a whodunnit. What A Carve Up gleefully sticks the knife into our current global mess while packing in stars like one of those delicious old Agatha Christie movies. The stellar cast includes Stephen Fry as a plummy publisher and Derek Jacobi hamming away as a dodgy PI, alongside Celia Imrie, Tamzin Outhwaite and Griff Rhys Jones.

In this reworking of Jonathan Coe’s 1994 satirical novel, it is nearly 30 years since the murder of the six Winshaw heirs – a motley bunch with their fingers in so many financial, political and media pies “they made the Murdochs look like the Waltons”.

After gathering for the reading of a will at their remote Gothic mansion one stormy night, the victims were garishly dispatched according to their crimes.

A famous author had been writing a catastrophic exposé of the corrupt clan and everyone thinks “hedunnit”. However, he also disappeared that night.

Years later, his son Raymond shares his own investigation, revealing a murky web stretching all the way to Westminster.

The production ingeniously creates archive recordings, filmed TV interviews, social media videos and telephone calls in a beautifully slick multimedia response to current live theatre closures. Huge fun.