While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they? When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to look her up online. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. Deadly danger has just boarded a flight to London! But how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming, well, a bit impolite? Because guess who's coming... to murder! Steven Moffat's play  The Unfriend  takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in May 2022, with a cast including Amanda Abbington, Frances Barber and Reece Shearsmith, before transferring to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in January 2023. Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer whose internationally successful television shows include  Doctor Who ,  Sherlock  and  Dracula  – the latter two co-written with actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who made his stage directorial debut with  The Unfriend . "Steven Moffat has skilfully crafted one of the funniest plays to be seen on stage in a very long time... pure comedy gold... a comedy of manners that niftily speeds along and is full of outrageous humour... never anything except laugh-out-loud funny... a killer comedy to die for." — WhatsOnStage "Effortlessly entertaining... The action is line-by-line funny and an apt commentary on English middle-class manners... Moffat may be the new Ayckbourn." — Telegraph "A hilarious dark comedy of good manners... a tour de force of toilet farce, proper gut-busting stuff." — The Stage "A cringe-tastic play of exquisite embarrassment... worthy of a place in the macabre comedy series  Inside No 9."  — Guardian "Boasts a ruthlessly efficient devotion to the punchline and a relentless urgency in ratcheting up the awkward tension. Every second or third line of this farcical modern comedy of manners is a gag... The premise is brilliant in its simplicity and hugely effective in its laugh-filled execution." — Chortle "A much-needed, riotous bit of fun... an uproarious comedy of English embarrassment... a relentlessly snowballing orgy of cringe and discomfiture... a delight." — Evening Standard "Hits the funny bone with a welcome twang." — The Times Steven Moffat  is an award-winning writer and producer, whose internationally successful television shows include  Doctor Who  and  Sherlock . His play,  The Unfriend , was premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2022, and transferred to the West End in 2023.