The world premiere of the new stage production, Picture You Dead, will visit as part of a major UK tour.
2024 National Television Award winning actor Peter Ash will return to the stage in the role of David Hegarty, following his acclaimed and unforgettably emotional exit from Coronation Street in September.
Peter’s other numerous credits include Footballers’ Wives and the lead role in the National Theatre’s War Horse.
Joining Peter is Fiona Wade who, following 11 years in Emmerdale, took to the stage earlier this year in the hit 2:22 A Ghost Story and she will soon be seen in the highly anticipated Fox comedy series, Going Dutch.
West End favourite Jodie Steele will star as Roberta Kilgore and one of the nation’s favourite TV doctors, George Rainsford, (Casualty, Call the Midwife and All’s Well That Ends Well at the National Theatre), will return to reprise the role of Peter James’s famous literary detective, DSI Roy Grace, which he played in the 2023 hit production of Wish You Were Dead.
George will also reunite with Fiona, who he starred alongside in 2:22 A Ghost Story.
The world premiere of Picture You Dead is the seventh Peter James book to be adapted for the stage by award-winning writer Shaun McKenna.
The story of Picture You Dead was inspired by Peter’s meeting with real life art forger and now acclaimed copyist, David Henty: set in Brighton, DSI Grace investigates a cold case that leads him to the rarefied air of fine art, but beneath the respectable veneer lurks a dark underworld of greed, deception, and murder.
When an unsuspecting couple unwittingly buy a potentially long-lost masterpiece in a car boot sale, 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.
Roy Grace is a crime fiction phenomenon - the books have sold more than 23 million copies worldwide, been previously adapted for six hugely successful stage productions, and have now been transformed into ITV's critically acclaimed primetime drama about the Brighton-based detective, Grace.
For more on tickets to see Picture You Dead, go to www.trch.co.uk or call 0115 9895555.