NEXT PERFORMANCE
Who Killed the Farmer? by Chris Martin
February 20th and 21st, 2026
Barrington Village Hall, Somerset TA19 0JE
Doors open 6.15pm, Curtain Up 7.00pm
Tickets £15 (to be booked and paid for in advance), which includes a complimentary light supper served in the interval. Licensed bar.
Email richardharker@hotmail.com or call 07880 563419
Book early to save disappointment. Our last performance was an immediate sell-out!
Who Killed the Farmer? …The year is 1954 and world-famous murder mystery writer Agnes Dalrimple has been invited to present a talk on her work at the tiny rural village of Barrington. To assist with her presentation, the local drama group, the Barrington Players, has been tasked with acting out Miss Dalrimple’s latest play, a comic whodunit named ‘Murder Most Fowl!’. This piece, set on a remote Somerset farm, centres around the brutal murder of local farmer Amos Ramsbottom. Amos is found stabbed, hung up by his feet inside a rickety barn which doubles as a chicken coop. But who would want to consign poor Amos to that great farmyard in the sky? Could it be…
* Constance, his discontented wife?
* Son Tom, of whom so much is expected yet who’s struggling to fill his father’s Wellingtons!?
* Local butcher, Burt Lard, owner of the thriving business, ‘Lard’s Larder’? Or…
* Lottie Belcher, Barrington’s bull-ish Lady Mayoress?
Veteran detective, Miss Mabel Nippitt, has her work cut out seeking out those chicken nuggets of truth in her bid to sort out the wheat from the chaff… as have the audience! It’s time to crack a few eggs…!!