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While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch - because no one ever really does, do they?
When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to look her up online. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. Deadly danger has just boarded a flight to London! But how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming, well, a bit impolite? Because guess who's coming... to murder!
Steven Moffat's play
The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in May 2022, with a cast including Amanda Abbington, Frances Barber and Reece Shearsmith, before transferring to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in January 2023.
Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer whose internationally successful television shows include
Doctor Who,
Sherlock and
Dracula - the latter two co-written with actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who made his stage directorial debut with
The Unfriend.
About the author
Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer and producer, whose internationally successful television shows include Doctor Who and Sherlock. His play, The Unfriend, was premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2022, and transferred to the West End in 2023.
Summary
Steven Moffat's hilarious satirical play about middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice.
