Sir Derek Jacobi, Sharon D Clarke & Stephen Fry among initial casting announced for digital production of What A Carve Up!

Initial casting has been announced for the world premiere What A Carve Up!, an online murder mystery play by Henry Filloux-Bennett, based on Jonathan Coe’s novel.

The digital production, produced by the Barn Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre and New Wolsey Theatre, chronicles the events leading up to the ‘Winshaw Murders’. Filled with murder, mayhem and madness, the murder mystery turns a satirical eye on what it is like to be a member of one of the most corrupt, powerful and toxic families in the country.

Directed by Tamara Harvey, What A Carve Up! will feature Fiona Button as Josephine Winshaw-Eaves, Sharon D. Clarke as Kim Bolton, Alfred Enoch as Raymond Owen, Rebecca Front as Hilary Winshaw, Stephen Fry as Patrick Mills, Sir Derek Jacobi as Findlay Onyx, Griff Rhys Jones as John Stephens and Tamzin Outhwaite as The Journalist.

Harvey said: “There are some casts so dazzling that my job, as a director, is to not get in the way. This is one of them. My only sadness, of course, is that we don’t get to be in the rehearsal room together. But the fact that these brilliant actors have all agreed to create this piece to raise money for regional theatres is one of the ways we're all still fighting to ensure that there will still be rehearsals rooms across the country, somewhere, somehow, in our future.”

The play will be available internationally from 31 October – 29 November and can be purchased at whatacarveup.com with varying ticketing options available.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a freelance fund to support the creative workforce that the theatres would not be able to survive without.

Further casting and creatives will be announced at a later date.