Murder On the Orient Express
If you love a murder mystery, you’ll love Murder on the Orient Express from the Auckland Theatre Company. The play is adapted from the Agatha Christie novel by the same name, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig.
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“One murder, eight suspects and a wild ride that’s about to go off the rails.”
If you love a murder mystery, you’ll love Murder on the Orient Express from the Auckland Theatre Company. The play is adapted from the Agatha Christie novel by the same name, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig.
The set design of the Orient Express and its various compartments was particularly well executed. And the accent and dialect coach worked wonders with all of the cast.
The play follows detective Hercule Poirot who has just closed an unfortunate case in Istanbul, on his way back to London. On the train journey, a passenger is killed in his bed so, naturally, Poirot is tasked with solving the murder.
The murder on the train, Bruno Cassetti, turns out to be related to the kidnapping and murder of a three-year-old girl Daisy Armstrong. Over the course of the play it is revealed that every single person onboard train had a connection to Daisy Armstrong, her family and the Daisy Armstrong case. One was the nurse, one was the governess, one was the brother of the nanny, one was the son of the attorney on the case. One was the aunt, one was the grandmother, one was the mother’s godmother, one was in the army with Daisy’s father.
In the most unexpected of plot twists, Poirot reveals that all eight people onboard the train were in on it. Bruno Cassetti was stabbed eight times, once by each of the eight people on board. Each for their own reasons.
Overall, an amazing show, closing on the 10th of May, you’ve got to see it if you get the chance. There’s now a return season been announced for February.
