Hull Truck Theatre Company, New Vic Theatre Company

The New Vic and Hull Truck Theatre are teaming up to bring Graham Linehan’s new adaptation of classic comedy The Ladykillers to the stage.

When criminal mastermind Professor Marcus and a motley crew of misfits pose as amateur musicians to rent rooms from the sweetly eccentric Mrs Wilberforce, the police have no idea that they’re planning a daring robbery.

But Mrs Wilberforce is not so easily deceived.

With his brilliant plot rumbled, the Professor decides that there’s only one way to keep the old lady quiet – Mrs Wilberforce must face the music. And he doesn’t mean a string quartet...