Groombrige Place & Enchanted Forest
Themes at the Garden Restaurant.
Make your party different this year by selecting one of our unique, hilarious and highly entertaining themes. "Exceedingly good comedy" The Infiltrators.

Murder Mystery Evenings (MME have a choice of 3 plots):
Include themed table centres for particular murder mystery, with notepads, pens and a prize for the winning table. Plots can also be personalised.

1. Battered in the Kitchen
Miss Jemima Hayhoe-Laughton invites you to her beautiful home. The year is 1932; the setting is the ancestral home of the Hayhoe-Laughtons. Miss Jemima lives in the house, whilst the trusted family lawyer, Hunphrey Laslow, carefully looks after the fortune. Hunphrey has decided to show his charitable side and has formed a club-"The Society for the Rehabilitation of Fallen Women". Richard Barrett (now a private investigator) has been invited to regale the guests with gruesome tales of his trade. Before the evening is half completed however, a scream is heard from the kitchen and a member of staff is found brutally battered.

2. Medieval
Three of Four strolling minstrels making a living-just.
Percy has high aspirations and wants to make it alone and feels the others are holding him back.
Norman is married to Guinevere and is a very hen pecked husband; everyone knows the Guinevere is a terrible scold.
Doris would rather be married to a knight and live in the castle sewing and cleaning, than to have to entertain, she wants out.

3. What the Dickens!
A Victorian Dickens version of Battered in the Kitchen, with all the characters coming from Dicken's novels.
Characters are: Esther Summerson, the young lady of the household, Sampson Brass her lawyer, Captain Cuttle her friend and Clara Peggotty the maid.

Or, try something completely different:

Swift Shakespeare.
Guests can witness the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet with a helpful "translation" from a modern interpreter.
They thrill to the witches scene from 'The Scottish Play" as the witches pass amongst them!
Time the actors as they race through Hamlet in 15 or was it 14 minutes and just how long is Midsummer Nights Dream?

These evenings are performed in between the courses and are interactive, fast, irreverent and great fun!

Mistletoe and Wine.
Festive fun and laughter with 2 actors in between the corses of your Christmas dinner. Thrill to our Christmas ghost stories or the excerpts from Dickens. An interactive, fun and atmospheric way to enhance your Christmas dinner. Can be personalised with information from the clients.

Hollywood Awards
Need to reward your staff? Rather than just handing out rewards, why not have a Hollywood event? With our prize giving compere and his glamorous assistant giving out the "Oscars" you can create an event your staff will never forget!

Wacky Waiters.
A very secret service for corporate events, business functions, weddings and parties. They appear to be genuine, will confuse your colleagues and will fool your staff and friends. Select from one or more of the following character guises:
The world's worst waiters
Dreadful dinner guests
Bad tempered butlers
Awful after dinner speakers

Contact the Estate office for details.