The barn-storming murder mystery that knocks spots off a dalmatian! 

Welcome to the Crooked Stile Veterinary Practice in the village of Sandy Bottom, Sparrowdale. It’s here that the nation’s favourite Sunday tea-time vet show, ‘Country Piles’ (a genuine whiff of the country!), is filmed. The show has been fronted for ten years by Leo Cooperthwaite, an award-winning peacock-of-a-presenter (voted ‘Dishiest Presenter of a Country-based TV Show’ for three years running). But when Leo’s murdered during filming, the show’s audience are presented with a unique opportunity... to review the footage and become ‘pet detectives’ themselves and try and work out whodunit. Will they succeed and Win-a-lot, or will they find themselves barking up the wrong tree?

But which pair was it who consigned poor Leo to a pet cemetery? Suspects from among the show’s employees include…

‘Warren Pearce’, the show’s hang-dog producer?

‘Polly Webster’ Leo’s co-presenter and aspiring vet? And…

Apprentice cameraperson, ‘Clay Pigeon’.

Or could it have been one of the Crooked Stile’s loyal customers…

Pensioner, ‘Kitty Wimples and her cat Toots’*?

Leo’s ‘number one fan’, ‘Bunny Afterglow and her dog Chumley Barkington’*? Or…

Bull-ish farmer ‘Ted Guppy’? 

(*The animal characters are portrayed onstage by cuddly toys yet treated as real by the cast.)

Pets, pet owners, and cosy nature-based television programmes are all satirised in this comic slice of ‘Animal Magic’. ‘Who Killed the Vet?’ has an approximate running time of one hour and fifteen minutes and requires a cast of 7 actors (either 3M/4F or 4M/3F). All characters have significant roles. 

Please CONTACT US to request a FREE copy of Act 1 of this play.

**This piece is a full-length, ‘dramatised’ version of the murderplays Mystery ‘Vet-ted for Murder'!