Thriller

• Directed by: Giselle Herbert
• Written by: Ariel Dorfman

Paulina Salas is a former Chilean political prisoner who had been tortured by her captors (led by a sadistic doctor whose face she never saw). Years later, after the repressive regime has fallen, Paulina lives in an isolated country house with her husband, Gerardo Escobar, a human rights lawyer. This night, a stranger…

• Written by: Ira Levin

Spine chilling and humorous with numerous plot twists, a Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

• Directed by: Roy Mardsen
• Written by: Patrick Hamilton

Psychological thriller about a deceiving, manipulative governess who throws a household into disarray when her young charge disappears.

• Directed by: Rupert Goold
• Written by: Brett Easton Ellis (book)

The high life in 1980s Manhattan is everything to Patrick Bateman including designer clothes and partying at the top nightclubs. In private, he deals with other forms of transgressions. And disappearances. Rupert Goold directs this Almeida Theatre and Headlong co-production, a musical thriller based on the novel by Bret…

Thriller in which a murderous stranger comes to call at a respectable Home Counties mansion.

• Written by: Marcus Lloyd

The suspense builds layer upon layer as this taut psychological thriller gathers speed at an alarming rate towards a gripping climax, where truth and illusion become almost inseparably entangled in a real life game of cat and mouse.

• Written by: Richard Harris

Talking Scarlet presents Anna Brecon in Richard Harris's revenge thriller, which pits a dead man's wife against his erstwhile mistress.

• Directed by: Ian Edmundson
• Written by: Peter Whalley

A thriller by Peter Whalley, directed by Ian Edmundson.

• Directed by: Jonathan Broadley
• Written by: Ira Levin

A production of the longest-running thriller on Broadway, set in the isolated New England home of a thriller playwright.

• Written by: Ira Levin

Talking Scarlet presents a production of the longest-running thriller on Broadway, set in the isolated New England home of a thriller playwright. Written by Ira Levin and starring Stephen Beckett.

Jamie Wilson Productions presents the Ha Ha Boys in a Sherlock Holmes spoof featuring the apparently cursed Blisterville family, who live in a large house on the edge of a moor.

No-one could have foreseen the strange events that took place one dark evening at the home of Mrs Gagarin. We see her taking a stroll. Next she screams, "Who is it? Oh, it's you!" Next a gunshot! It's up to the world's greatest detective to solve the crime. But, in the words of Sergeant Plod, "don't believe everything you…

Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of LipService Theatre present their work-in-progress spoof Scandinavian crime thriller, featuring authentic knitwear and self-assembly flat-pack furniture.

Square Peg Theatre Company presents a film-noirish thriller set in a dystopian world of political paranoia.

Oliver Mellor and Karen Ford star in Emlyn Williams's classic 1930s thriller about a man set to inherit a vast fortune who finds himself surrounded by murder and intrigue.

• Directed by: Richard Withers
• Written by: Emlyn Williams

• Written by: Simon Brett

Simon Brett's unique comedy thriller which entertains the audience with its wickedly clever mix of eccentric characters, complex plot twists and gentle humour.

• Written by: Brian Clemens'

The World Premiere of Brian Clemens's ingeniously plotted, highly tense thriller about murder, told in flashbacks and re-enactments.

• Written by: Fred Carmichael

The amateur company presents Fred Carmichael's comedy thriller in which the characters in a writer's novel-in-progress come murderously to life during an electrical storm.

• Written by: Terence Frisby

Tom Conti stars as television journalist James Highwood, who finds himself accused of murder in Terence Frisby's gripping courtroom drama.

After hard years in exile for a crime he didn't commit, Benjamin Barker, now Sweeney Todd, returns to London to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin. In his anger Sweeney plots to take his murderous revenge. With the help of Mrs. Lovett and her grizzly pie shop, he re-opens his barber…

• Written by: Norman Robbins

A comedy thriller Tiptoe Through the Tombstones comes to the cornerHOUSE at the end of May. The play, written by Norman Robbins and performed by Upstage Theatre Company, is the second in a trilogy about the mysterious and murderous goings-on at the Tomb family home, Monument House. Lawyer Mortimer Crayle has gathered the…

• Written by: Norman Robbins

Norman Robbins's comedy thriller involving a sinister house, the reading of a rich man's will, and a bunch of eccentric relatives.

Haddo House, with its creaking floorboards and spooky nooks and crannies, plays host to the Unsolved Festival. Wannabe detectives, budding crime writers, CSI aficionados and those who just like a good old fashioned mystery can enjoy writer talks, films and storytelling events.