The Unfriend

The Unfriend is an uproarious comedy of English embarrasment. It is the story of a couple too polite and uptight to ask a suspected killer to leave their home, with the meticulous bourgeois manners and spiraling hysteria of a darker Alan Ayckbourn play.

Unfriend (noun).  A person, often met on holiday, who doesn’t understand that “let’s keep in touch” means “goodbye.” Sometimes a murderer.

BAFTA Award winning comedian Lee Mack (Not Going Out, Would I Lie To You?) and Sarah Alexander (Coupling, Smack The Pony) join Frances Barber (Silk, Doctor Who) as she reprises her force of nature performance in this smash hit comedy from writer Steven Moffat and director Mark Gatiss, the celebrated team behind BBC’s Sherlock.

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, so they agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they? When Elsa invites herself to stay with the family a few months later, they decide to look her up online. But it’s too late: on learning the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski, the deadly danger is already on a flight to London!

What follows is a relentlessly snowballing orgy of cringe and discomfiture. Elsa’s arrival initially gives Peter and Debbie’s stroppy teenage son and daughter one more reason to hate their parents. Then she begins to work a kind of unifying magic on the family – “she’s Murder Poppins” as Debbie puts it – which is almost worse.

Peter and Debbie now face the ultimate challenge of the modern world – how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming a bit impolite?

Because guess who’s coming… to MURDER.

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