Ian Rankin’s REBUS: A GAME CALLED MALICE returns to stage starring Gray O’Brien

Following the success of the critically acclaimed BBC television series, the return to the stage of Ian Rankin’s much-loved detective Rebus, in the stage production of Rebus: A Game Called Malice by Ian Rankin and Simon Reade, has been announced.

Loveday Ingram directs Gray O’Brien (Peak Practice) as John Rebus, Abigail Thaw (Endeavour) as Stephanie Jeffries, and Billy Hartman (Emmerdale) as Jack Fleming in the production.

Rebus: A Game Called Malice opens at Cambridge Arts Theatre on 29 August, before a 12 venue tour, which launches at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh and completes its run at Lighthouse, Poole on 30 November.

A splendid dinner party in an Edinburgh mansion concludes with a murder mystery game created by the hostess. A murder needs to be solved. But the guests have secrets of their own, threatened by the very game they are playing. And among them is Inspector John Rebus. True crime is his calling. Is he playing an alternative game, one to which only he knows the rules? There are suspects, clues and danger with every twist and turn - and a shocking discovery will send this game called ‘Malice' hurtling towards a gasp-inducing conclusion.