Full casting announced for KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER! at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022

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Full casting has been announced for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 world premiere of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!

The five-strong cast features real-life best friends Bronté Barbé (Beautiful) as Kathy and Rebekah Hinds (Oklahoma!, Young Vic) as Stella in the title roles, playing Hull’s least successful true crime podcasters Kathy Baxter and Stella Carmichael. The cast is complemented by West-End favourite Jodie Jacobs (Rock of Ages) as world renowned true crime author Felicia Taylor, TJ Lloyd (Guys and Dolls, Sheffield Crucible) as friendly morgue technician Justin Norris and Imelda Warren-Green (Doctor Who Time Fracture) as Kathy and Stella superfan Erica Knott.

Murder obsessed BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull’s least successful true-crime podcast. When their favourite author is killed, they are thrust into a thrilling whodunnit of their own! Can they crack the case (and become global podcast superstars) before the killer strikes again…?

This laugh-out-loud musical reunites the writing and musical talents of Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones. They said: “During the first lockdown we started a musicals club where we did synchronised watches of everything from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Legally Blonde. At the same time we were bingeing every true crime documentary and podcast the internet had to offer. It wasn't long before we decided to mash up our lockdown hobbies - and Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder was born! A heart-warming musical about a cold-blooded killing. Serial or Making a Murderer by way of Victoria Wood, Hairspray and Scooby Doo. It's a story about true crime, the influence storytellers can have on the stories they're telling, and most of all it’s about two misfit best friends, the world's least likely detectives, who set out to find a killer... and along the way find themselves.”

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