Murder, She Didn’t Write returns to the West End: audience-led murder mystery at The Duchess Theatre
An audience-driven murder mystery comes to The Duchess Theatre, London, with three new dates in 2025 – 21 July, 29 September, and 24 November.
The crime-solving clipboard is back in audience hands as Murder, She Didn’t Write — the anarchic, Agatha-Christie-meets-late-night-cabaret improv cult hit — announces three further West End dates following its sell-out London debut earlier this year.
The long-running Edinburgh Fringe favourite will bring its gloriously chaotic whodunnit to The Duchess Theatre on 21 July, 29 September and 24 November 2025, inviting the audience not just to watch the mystery unfold, but to write it — live.
Each performance begins with a blank page and ends in a fully-formed murder mystery, stitched together on the spot by Bristol improv powerhouse Degrees of Error. A suspect will fall, a murderer will rise, and the motive may very well involve synchronised swimming, sabotage on a reality-TV island or a fatal misunderstanding in the dairy aisle — depending on whatever bizarre prompt the audience throws at them.
No two shows are the same; no script exists; and no cast member knows who they’ll be playing until moments before they stagger on in a feathered shawl or police hat. It is, as ever, a ludicrously charming slice of theatrical mischief — as though Poirot had been hijacked by the gleefully deranged staff of a village fête.
The rotating cast includes Lizzy Skrzypiec, Rachael Procter-Lane, Caitlin Campbell, Peter Baker, Stephen Clements, Douglas Walker and Sylvia Bishop — improv stalwarts with a decade of quick-fire absurdity and Fringe triumphs behind them.
Born in Bristol and now bedding happily into London’s West End, the show sits comfortably alongside the capital’s appetite for playful chaos. As Skrzypiec puts it, sharing a theatre with The Play That Goes Wrong “has gone so right”.
Murder, She Didn’t Write
The Duchess Theatre, London
21 July, 29 September & 24 November 2025
Age guidance: 12+
Tickets & info: theduchesstheatre.co.uk/tickets/murder-she-didnt-write/
Elena Leo is the Arts & Lifestyle Editor of Ikon London Magazine.