Murder Before Evensong review – the Rev Richard Coles’s village mystery squeezes into cosy theatre

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What happened

Watermill theatre, Newbury Ian Hallard impresses as the detecting rector in a thoughtful adaptation that sometimes strains under a villageful of suspects, victims and doubling actors Poirot, Marple, Rebus, Barnaby and Grace have all recently investig…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:30:12 UTC.

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