THEATRE company Talking Scarlet returns to The Haymarket this month with Stone Cold Murder.

James Cawood’s tense thriller is set in deep winter in the Lake District.

Olivia and Robert, owners of the Langsrath Country House Hotel, are enjoying the success of their first season and the respite of the winter break when their solitude is disrupted by the appearance of Ramsay, a lost climber looking for shelter.

As the evening unfolds, it becomes apparent that Ramsay's presence in this desolate spot is anything but a coincidence, and soon events take a murderous turn.

See the show in The Haymarket from March 25-28. 

The production stars Gary Turner (Emmerdale), who was last in Basingstoke in 2011 in the role of Captain Hook in Peter Pan at The Anvil, David Callister (The Bill) who appeared in the recent Table Manners at The Haymarket, Freya Copeland (Emmerdale) and Nick Barclay.

Box office: 01256 844244, anvilarts.org.uk

David Callister 

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