Charles Paris returns in a show at the Edinburgh Festival - with another attractive young girl to provoke him, his understanding wife to console him, and a gory murder to challenge him in So Much Blood.

Edinburgh and the Festival are both background and foreground with Charles, flitting between a re-visualized Midsummer Night's Dream, a mixed-media satire, a late-night revue, and his own one-man show on Thomas Hood—and with a fading pop star as the first victim, a bomb scare in Holyrood Palace, and a suicide leap from the top of the Rock. Charles copes splendidly with the Festival, with his affair with the girl with the navy eyes, and with a most complex murder investigation.

Bill Nighy as Charles Paris
with Suzanne Burden as Frances 
and Jon Glover, Daniel Ryan, Paul Rider, Sunny Ormonde, Tim McInnerny, Ioan Meredith, Owen Oakeshott