Arden Entertainment was an investor in the 2013 production of Barking In Essex, a riotously funny comedy with an all-star cast including Lee Evans, Sheila Hancock, Keeley Hawes and Karl Johnson.

Written by Clive Exton (10 Rillington Place, Poirot and Jeeves and Wooster), Barking… follows the Packers, just your perfectly average, totally dysfunctional, ‘well-dodgy’ Essex crime family with a BIG problem. Algie Packer’s just done seven years inside and now he’s coming home to spend his carefully stashed cash – ￡3.5 million in untraceable notes. But there’s something Algie’s family has forgotten to mention…

Wyndham’s Theatre, London.