Peter James' Picture You Dead

Wed 16 Apr 2025 Sat 19 Apr 2025

Superintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead, which has opened to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike.

Starring 2024’s multiple award-winning actor Peter Ash (Coronation Street, War Horse), Fiona Wade, who starred this year in 2:22 A Ghost Story, following 12 years in Emmerdale, and with Casualty’s George Rainsford (Call the Midwife, 2:22 A Ghost Story) returning as DSI Roy Grace.

With a total of 20 Sunday Times bestsellers to his name and the television series GRACE now a huge hit on ITV, Picture You Dead, the seventh and brand-new thrilling stage adaptation, cements Peter James’ Grace series as the most successful modern-day crime stage franchise since Agatha Christie. 

Back home in Brighton, DSI Grace investigates a cold case that leads him to the secretive world of fine art, but beneath the respectable veneer lurks a dark underworld of deception and murder.

When one unsuspecting couple unearth a potentially priceless masterpiece, they discover that their dream find is about to turn into their worst nightmare, and only Grace can stop them from paying the ultimate price.

 

Reviews

★★★★★ One of the best crime thrillers I’ve seen on stage… kill for a ticket!’  - Chichester Observer on Peter James’s Dead Simple

★★★★★ Will leave you breathless with suspense’ - Whatsgoodtodo on Peter James’s The House on Cold Hill

‘Keeps the audience on the edge of their seats’ - The Swindonian

Accessible Performances

Audio Described by Caroline Burn: Friday 18 April 2025, 7.30pm. Touch Tour at 6.30pm.

BSL Interpreted by Emma Jane Mansfield: Thursday 17 April 2025, 7.30pm.

 

To book accessible performances, please email access@thelowry.com or call 0161 876 2183.

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