Young men are dying and everyone assumes they’re just casualties of London’s chemsex scene. Everyone, that is, but Anthony, who is determined to investigate. Tumulus by Christopher Adams is a chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.
An interesting experiment (Vault is an experimental theatre festival for new playwrights in London), that suffers a bit from an over reliance on direct address to the audience - and having only three actors enact over three dozen characters, which I would think a mite confusing. Nevertheless, the STORY it tells, apparently based on real incidents, is compelling, just not told in what I would consider its best format.