Martin Dunlop has chosen an apt pop-up venue in Pleasance House in posh Collins Street to stage his one-man whodunit spoof.
The eccentric Melbourne comedian parodies the archetypes, tropes and cultural prejudices of those British murder mysteries endlessly repeated here on (free-to-air) TV — from Agatha Christie adaptations to Midsomer Murders. In Dunlop's "romp", the "hateful" Lady Hamblin of Howling Grange has been bumped awfff. Murder, He Spoke is as hysterically funny as it is ingenious. Dunlop knows his subject — and his writing never falters. But he might pace his performance — and keep a straighter face. Meta cool.
