Though I've yet to be cajoled into one of those hideous weekend 'Murder Mystery' trips (ie thinly disguised Find the Partner of Your Dreams/Heighten the Failures in Your Marriage weekends), I must confess to whiling away the odd quiet New Year's Eve playing Cluedo. Such is the place of the board game in our psyche, it has become as much an institution as watching a Miss Marple film on bank holidays. Never mind the possible sexual undertones that may throb beneath this popular game, how often do we consider the racism, sexism and homophobia on which the concept of Murder Mystery is based?

Combining the genuine theses of leading Victorian criminologists and the slicked back-hair, lesbian golfer stereotypes of the genre, performance artist David Leddy's latest show deconstructs the politics behind the whodunnit.

"I'm interested in the direct link between the origin of criminology and Hollywood's obsession with psychotic gay killers", says Leddy," but I wanted to create a show which was fun, despite the intellectual and academic ideas that lie beneath it."

Given that the genre repeats itself so often, it must be fairly easy to parody. "It always amazes me how emotionally detatched the characters are," laughs Leddy. "Or how they always speak in clipped BBC tones with the one token foreign accent from nowhere."

So, readers, where vill you be on zee night of Thursday dees week?

Louise Rimmer