Murder on the dancefloor

Everyone is a detective, everyone is a suspect.

Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 March 2025

The mysterious Frankie Dupin is throwing the party of the year at her family mansion, everyone at Selkirk Road Academy is invited even though nobody has ever met her before.

Frankie’s mystique crosses the school’s social groups: goths are mixing with geeks, popular kids with gamers, even the hipsters have shown up! But when a party game goes horribly wrong and a classmate is found murdered, everyone becomes a detective and a suspect.

Before the night is over, they’ll be twists, turns and revelations, Murder of the Dancefloor is a fun and exciting murder mystery play co-created with the young people of Wolverhampton Grand Arena Youth Theatre.

In 2024 I was commissioned by Wolverhampton Grand to write a new play for their senior youth theatre. I attended 6 sessions with the young people running creative storytelling and writing workshops and from that develop the ideas and characters which would lead to Murder on the Dancefloor. The young people then rehearsed the play weekly for 6 months before sharing it to sell out audiences at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton.