The barn-storming murder mystery comedy that’s guaranteed first in show!

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 he returns ‘in spirit’ to present the audience with a unique opportunity... to review the footage to become ‘pet detectives’ 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 his pet cemetery? Suspects from among the show’s employees include…

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

‘Polly Webster’ the surgery secretary and aspiring vet?

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 slice of ‘Animal Magic’. ‘Vet-ted for Murder!’ has an approximate running time of an hour and requires a cast of 6 actors, 3M/3F. All characters have significant roles. 

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

**This piece is a stripped-back version of the full-length murderplays’ piece ‘Who Killed the Vet?’.