Looking good dead review5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() So top marks to director Jonathan O’Boyle and the backstage team for how they handled things here.Īdam Woodyatt (Ian Beale to most readers) takes centre stage as Tom Bryce – frayed husband to Kellie, played by Gaynor Faye (Emmerdale) and teenage son Max (Luke Ward-Williamson), who comes home one day with a memory stick, pops it in his laptop and witnesses something truly shocking. It’s a style that’s not necessarily easy to capture on stage – certainly when compared to the big screen – where constant scene changes would be a distraction and therefore the pacing needs to be a little slower as the action unfolds in a more measured style. If you’re a fan, you can’t put them down but if you’re not, you’ll probably have a pretty good idea you’re not, pretty quickly. The books are fairly typical of the modern-day crime thriller genre: lots of short chapters which switch from character to character and are generally paced somewhere between express Ferrari and runaway train. Peter James afficionados will be familiar with the story of ‘Looking Good Dead’, the second book in his Roy Grace detective series and the fifth to be adapted for the stage, this time by Shaun McKenna. The world premiere stage production of Peter James’ novel Looking Good Dead is currently playing at the Lyceum theatre, and we sent reviewer Amy Tingle along to check out the the Adam Woodyatt fronted mystery. ![]()
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