LIVING Spit’s autumn recipe is on its way to a theatre near you.

Mary Mallon is an Irish immigrant, an amiable host … and a killer? A talented cook in New York City in 1906 takes a job preparing delicious meals for yet another high society family, and yet again they begin to fall ill and die. Coincidence? Mary thinks so. She’s put all that nonsense behind her … or has she?

Stu Mcloughlin plays the much-maligned Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, with Lucy Tuck as the germaphobic inspector George Soper.

Find out more when Living Spit arrives at a venue near you. It is on stage at the Theatre Shop in Clevedon until Saturday 12th October, and then touring. Starting with two Artsreach dates, at Royal Manor Theatre at Portland on Tuesday 15th October and Lytchett Matravers village hall on Wednesday 16th, the tour continues to The Exchange at Sturminster Newton on Thursday 17th, The Pound arts centre at Corsham on Saturday 19th, and from Thursday 24th to Saturday 26th at the Blakehay Theatre, Weston-super-Mare.

November dates are 4th to 9th November, Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol, 13th November at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, 14th November at Bridport Arts Centre, 15th at Dorchester Arts, and 16th at Pill Memorial Club, Easton in Gordano. With live original music, deliciously tempting food, which you can really eat (if you dare), gory deaths a-plenty, puerile puppetry and sackfuls of cross-dressing crassness, this promises to be a feverishly funny feast of fun for some of the family. Just don’t mention the T-word …