Halloween Special: The Body Smugglers Murder Mystery - The Atkinson

An October morning in 1826, along The Mersey Docks. On a cargo ship setting sail for Scotland, a young sailor notices a foul odour seeping from one of the shipment barrels. The seaman was used to the stench of fish and brine, but this was different... this made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. A smell so vile, he gagged as they prised open the barrels to reveal bodies, stripped naked, pickled in brine and salted in an attempt to preserve them. Men, women and children.

Johnathan hasn’t heard from his cousin since her harrowing letter. He has read the papers, the reports of notorious Liverpool body smugglers stealing from shallow graves; that some bodies didn’t even make it to the cemetery before they were sold to the highest bidder to be used in godless experimentation. He fears the worse, but there is only one way to find out the truth. Join him as he retraces his cousin's steps to discover what happened to her, but be warned, some people want to keep the truth buried, and they will do anything to stop it being exposed... even KILL.

Join DBY interactive in the Atkinson Theatre for this interactive theatrical Murder Mystery Show. A night of secrets, deceit, missing bodies and murder.

PLEASE NOTE : The show contains some references to historical body smuggling methods that some viewers may find unsettling. Age 12+