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Spymonkey's Cooped

"Spymonkey return with a deliciously demented take on gothic romance. This is the show that made the company an international comedy sensation, delighting audiences from Sydney Opera House to Just For Laughs, Montreal.

The action takes place some time in the 1960s at Birch End, the dilapitated ancient seat of the Murdstons.

Beautiful, fawn-like, but a hostage to love, Laura du Lay arrives in the remote county of Northumberlandhamptonshire to take up her position as confidential secretary to the reclusive Forbes Murdston. She has ignored for as long as she can the unsettling rumours that surround her new employer, his ominous teutonic manservant Klaus, swarthy-but-sweaty lawyer Roger Parchment and the ancient mansion. But Murdston's violent mood-swings can only signify one thing..."

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