Meet the Cast

Helen
Flanagan

Miss Scarlett

  • Helen Flanagan is a Northern based actress, best known for her role as ROSIE WEBSTER on Coronation Street. She expressed an interest in acting from a very early age, starting her career at 5 years old, when she attended the renowned Carol Godby Theatre Workshop in Greater Manchester. There she secured many television jobs, prior to landing the regular part on the cobbles, where she worked for over 18 years. She left the role in 2018 to start her beautiful family, and now has 3 adorable young children. Helen has a fantastic social media following and has worked over the last few years with some amazing brands. She is elated to be making her stage debut as MISS SCARLETT in the UK tour of Cluedo 2: The Next Chapter and ignite her passion for performing!

Jason
Durr

Colonel Mustard

  • After training at LAMDA Jason went straight to the Royal Shakespeare Company, working with director Trevor Nunn in Measure For Measure and The Blue Angel, followed by Macbeth directed by Adrian Noble.

    Some of Jason’s other theatre credits include:

    LOUIS in Losing Louis (Hampstead Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), SHERLOCK in Sherlock Holmes - The Best Kept Secret (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Tour), TONY BLAIR in Follow my Leader (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Repertory Theatre), QUINE in Donkeys Years (Rose Theatre), HERCULE POIROT in Black Coffee (Theatre Royal Windsor and Tour). ZACK in A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible), VINCE in Way Up Stream (Chichester Festival TheatreBlack), NICK in The Wrong Side of The Rainbow (Donmar Warehouse), GUY in Volcano (West End - Vaudeville Theatre), BEN in The Destiny Of Me (Haymarket Theatre), and MATTHEW in Contact.com (Park Theatre).

    TV includes:

    Above Suspicion, Inspector Morse, Midsummer Murders, Lewis, New Tricks, Numb3rs, Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Blue Geranium, Mysterious Island, The Paradise Club, Femme Fatale, Summer Solstice, Bugs, Christmas, A Dark Adapted Eye, Fooling Hitler, Winter Solstice, Sharpe’s Battle, Iphigenia at Aulis, Medics, Gawain And The Green Knight, The Chief, Jupiter Moon, Heartbeat, Holby City & Casualty.

    Film includes:

    Young Soul Rebels, The Killer Tongue, True True Lie, and Down Dog.

Creatives

  • Mark is best known for directing The Play That Goes Wrong (2015 Olivier Award Winner for Best New Comedy, 2015 Broadway World UK Award Winner for Best New Play & 2014 WhatsOnStage Award Winner for Best New Comedy). Mark took the show from tiny pub Theatre The Old Red Lion in Islington to the West End and various UK No.1 Tours and then all the way to Broadway where it was produced by JJ Abrams, his first ever Theatre production. While TPTGW was running at The Lyceum Theater in NYC, Mark won the 2017 Broadway World Award for Best Direction of a Play and the show itself picked up 2 more Best New Play Awards from Broadway World and Broadway.com. The show is now playing at New York at New World Stages and other replica shows are playing worldwide including Italy, Budapest and Mexico. 2024 marks The Play That Goes Wrong’s 10th year at The Duchess Theatre in London’s West End.

    Mark also directed the West End hit The Comedy About a Bank Robbery which was nominated for an Olivier Award and ran at The Criterion in the West End for over 4 years. Most importantly, Mark also directed the first CLUEDO stage play, a big hit on a national UK tour in 2022.

    Other directing includes:

    Fun at the Beach Romp-Bomp-a-Lomp (Southwark Playhouse), Iolanthe (touring), Windfall (Southwark Playhouse), Horse Country (Wilton’s Music Hall, Edinburgh & Adelaide Festivals & touring), Sirens Man and Crabs (Unity Theatre Liverpool & touring), The Tenants (Winterfest NYC), La Obra que Salle Mal (Theatro Helenico, Mexico City), Che Disastro di Commedia (Theatro Greco, Rome and touring ), Waiting For Waiting For Godot, (St James Theatre, off West End), Ma Este Megbukunk (Central Szinhaz, Budapest), Blue Blood by Anna Jordan (Hammersmith Riverside), The Revengers Tragedy (RCSSD, London), The Master & Margarita, Pieces, Cheap Thrills and Classic Cuts (East 15), A Servant to Two Masters, Scapin (CMU, Pittsburgh), The Snowfall (Etcetera), Breathing Corpses, Comedians, Marat/Sade, The Crucible, Agamemnon, Antigone and The Bacchae (LAMDA), Flea Circus, George and the Dragon and Fiddlesticks (Garlic Theatre).

    Comedy Director, Uncle Vanya (St James), The Titanic Orchestra (Edinburgh Festival).

    Trained at Ecole Internationale de Theatre, Jacques Lecoq, Mark was co-Artistic Director of Liquid Theatre. Liquid shows as actor and co-director include If You Were Mine (ACW), Feeding Time (BAC, 3 separate runs), Endgame (BAC) and Crave (BAC & Touring).

    Mark taught at LAMDA for over 10 years developing work on Clown, Bouffon, Melodrama and Chorus. He was head of 2nd year for 5 years. Mark has also taught at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview, East 15, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh USA and Cours Florent in Paris.

    Mark has 2 new musicals in development and is also set to direct his first feature film, From Me To You, for Gold Circle Films.

    www.markbell.info