This new production based on Agatha Christie’s novel will open at The Lowry on the 6th September.
Following a tour of the crime novel of all time, And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie Ltd, Fiery Angel and Lucy Bailey (director of the West End hit Witness for the Prosecution) have announced they will be producing Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express later this year.
It will open on the 6th September at The Lowry in Salford and will continue through to 2025, finishing on the 26th April at Brighton Theatre Royal.
James Prichard of Agatha Christie Limited said, “We’re thrilled to once again be working with Lucy Bailey and the team at Fiery Angel and excited to bring Ken Ludwig’s magnificent adaptation of one of my great grandmother’s most atmospheric and ingenious stories back to UK audiences.”
Winter 1934 and an avalanche stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Trapped in the snow with a killer still on board, can the world’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, crack the case before the train reaches its final destination?
Meanwhile, having now recently directed three of Christie’s classic thrillers for the stage, this will be Lucy Bailey’s fourth. She said, “Murder on the Orient Express, fast, funny, almost farcical at times but with a dark undercurrent of loss and revenge… A train stuck in a snow drift. The holed up passengers all suspected of murder – what fun to be had!
Casting for the tour has yet to be announced.
The creative team behind the production is also set to include: designs by Mike Britton and lighting design by Oliver Fenwick.
To find out more about the tour visit: http://www.murderontheorientexpressplay.com/