A Bitter and Twisted Cocktail

A Consensus Opera Production A new comedy murder mystery by Tim Johnson, set to music from the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. It is 1937 on the French Riviera and the last descendants of the Wise and Fogbound families have gathered following the death of Alexis, head of the family temperance brewing business. Bearing the will and the fates of all those assembled is his executor, the newly retired Inspector Lawless, who finds himself between a rock and cleft stick as the will goes missing, echoes of the past emerge from the shadows, and an uneasy family truce unravels.

Inspector Lawless is soon at the centre of his most difficult case and the truth he uncovers hangs around his neck like a Sword of Damocles – can he find the Gordian knot in a haystack in time, or will tragedy strike again?