The cast were largely being sold on their appearances in various long-running soap opera like Eastenders and Hollyoaks, which also meant I didn't recognise the cast either. But for all the unfamiliar material, this was a highly-entertaining evening out.
The victim is a highly-successful property developer who is about to get married to his beautiful fiancee. His best man (and business partner) can't join him at his stag do, leaving the others to stage a mock kidnapping and bury him in a coffin (with a breathing tube) as a payback for the OTT pranks he had played on them at their stag dos. But it all goes wrong when the others die in a car crash and his only means of communication with his abductors - a walkie talkie - is picked up by the mentally subnormal son of the clearance contractor (played like a youthful Johnny Vegas).
His best man suddenly realises that if he keeps quiet about the "mock funeral" he will take-over the rest of the business (of which he is the junior partner) and become fabulously rich. Enabling him to cop off with his best mate's fiancée and a life of luxury - while of course his mate would die a horrible slow death. There are many further plot twists, but needless to say it was a very engaging piece of hokum and you never lost interest. It was a terribly ingenuous plot. But it did make you realise that this was really a book, not a play: the interest was not so much what was going on, but finding out what would happen next. A real page-turner where you wanted to skip over the writing to get to the next twist and eventual denouement.
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