WHERE there’s a will, there’s a way – and that is just what this comedy thriller is all about, staged by Dorchester Drama in which ten characters try to get their hands on a dead millionaire’s money.

Trevor Williams directs and also skilfully plays the leading role of a wily solicitor who arrives at the home of a weird family who are all eagerly waiting to get their share of their father’s will.

What follows is a mixture of off-the-wall comedy and murder mystery in a seriously silly plot that tracks the Tomb family who live together in a remote mansion and who detest each other, and who can blame them?

They comprise bossy Emily, pompous Lucien, sex fiend Monica, whacky Marcus who thinks he is Julius Caesar and dotty Dora whose homemade wine is a killer.

Add to the plot a sinister housekeeper, Marcus’s nurse and a rom-com writer and her secretary and the bodies soon start to fall. Lee Stroud is in fine form as Emily, who relentlessly bullies her siblings, with Andy Munro spouting Shakespeare, Ian Farley (the top dog of the family), Stella Hollis (the sex-bomb) and Felicity Morgan and her deadly drinks.

They all make the most of their roles, as do Ann Ottoway as the housekeeper, Monica Hunt as the novelist and Rob Sansom as her side-kick, neither of whom are what they seem.

Written by panto guru Norman Robbins, the lively plot slowly runs out of steam.