THE STORY: Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdboot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second-stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are watching. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-esque melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa
proves to be the missing first-string critic. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman
“THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND is an exceedingly clever lampoon, sharply in focus.” —The New York Times.
“A tour de force of theatrical metaphysics.” —The Daily Mail.
“A masterpiece Stoppard mines murder mystery conventions and strikes gold.“ —The Independent on Sunday.
