Bullshot Crummond
by Alan Shearman, Derek Cunningham, Diz White, John Neville-Andrews, and Ronald E. House
26 Nov 2015 – 5 Dec 2015 · The Athenaeum, Octagon
Appropriately for the on-set of the “silly season”, our 2015 season will end with a very silly play indeed. But we mean that in a good way. This is a farcial paradoy of the 1920s pulp hero Bulldog Drummond, the central character in a series of crime novels that also spawned a series of silent films. Let’s “put you in the picture”.
The villains, Count Otto Von Brunno and Lenya von Brunno plan to ruin the international diamond market by kidnapping Professor Rupert Fenton. The heroes, Hugh 'Bullshot' Crummond and Rosemary Fenton, the professor's daughter, set out to thwart their evil intent. So begins a fast pace comic romp that lurches from bizarre to the outrageous. Perfect theatre to fit the festive season