Subtitled "a play or two", Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury in 1963 and the drin's are laced with cyanide. The'second half, A Game of Soldiers, is a Whitehall farce taking place in'st James's Palace. A dramatist has brought his completed play to be censored but the Lord Chamberlain's Men have a few shameful secrets of their own ...