The Lying Kind

The Lying Kind: KDC Theatre

It's Christmas Eve and well-meaning but inept coppers Blunt and Gobbel have one last job for the night; tell impossibly old couple Garson and Balthasar that their only daughter has died in a car crash. Understandably they're not too keen on the idea and when they finally get the words out, the elderly pair gets completely the wrong end of the stick.

Desperate to set the record straight the blundering twosome set in a motion a chain of unexpected events which need covering up, and quickly. Mild-mannered Reverend Shandy has popped round to offer his condolences, potty-mouthed vigilante Gronya is on the hunt for the local paedophile, and her equally unpleasant daughter just so happens to have the same name as the deceased.

First performed at the Royal Court in 2002, The Lying Kind is a deliciously dark farce inspired by comedy new and old from the League of Gentlemen and Black Books, to Monty Python and Morecambe & Wise.