ONCE nights start to draw in, York Theatre Royal will fill its stage with spirits and shadows in The Haunted Season from September 9. So begins a wonderfully creative and generally excellent adaptation of an Agatha Christie classic which, OK, yes, has been retold more times than your grandad’s favourite Christmas joke, but this time around benefits from some excellent performances and quite superb stagecraft. Timothy Watson as Ratchett and Henry Goodman as Poirot. Photo: Johan Persson Playwright (and pantomime dame to boot) Philip Meeks has history at York Theatre Royal in the form of Twinkle, Little Star, starring Nottingham Playhouse panto legend Kenneth Alan Taylor in the Studio in 2008 and the 2017 world premiere of Murder, Margaret and Me, his comedy-thriller of imagined meetings between crime novelist and playwright Agatha Christie and actress Margaret Rutherford. The play ran for around an hour and a half and there was no interval. Between each section of the play the theatre was plunged into semi darkness as the curtain was pulled down with haunting lighting making it even more atmospheric and setting the scene for more intrigue and mystery. After crashing his car in a lonely country lane, former pop star Danny (Tom Chambers) finds himself—and his extended family—spending New Year’s Eve in an isolated holiday cottage deep in the English countryside. Also in attendance are the wife and son he abandoned to pursue his musical career, Rebecca (Rebecca Charles) and Jake (Jonny Green), his resentful older brother, William (Owen Oakeshott), and his age-inappropriate girlfriend, Sarah (Laura White).

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This thrilling new ghost story by acclaimed writer Torben Betts will thrust you into darkness and have you on the edge of your seats until the final chilling twist.Delving into the underbelly of 1930s’ London life, this New Adventures show invites audiences to step inside The Midnight Bell, a tavern where one particular lonely hearts club gathers to play out lovelorn affairs of the heart: bitter comedies of longing, frustration, betrayal and redemption. This coming weekend sees the celebration of London’s West End theatre ‘ West End Live‘ which coincides with the 350th anniversary of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. In 1663, the Theatre Royal opened in London, under the reign of Charles II. The Theatre Royal has had an incredible history of on stage performances which have starred and been attended by many famous people. But did you know about the equally dramatic off stage performance involving the assassination attempt on Mad King George III from a man in the audience in 1800 who also thought that he was King George III? We are delighted to reveal full casting for the new Torben Betts thriller, Murder in the Dark , directed by Philip Franks. Sensational new staging of Agatha Christie’s world-famous thriller MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS tours exclusively to Bath The play stars Shane Ritchie and Jessie Wallace, two fine actors who have a wonderful, if not troublesome, rapport on stage as an unhappily married couple, Victor and Joan Smiley.

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I was intrigued by the title and I love a good murder mystery. I have read all Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle and several authors of the ‘Golden Age Detective Fiction’ of 1920s and 1930s in which this novel is set. However, this novel was very disappointing. She uses peculiar vocabulary, which I think sounds researched as ‘of the era’ but adds nothing to the book. A lot seems overwritten and gets boring to decipher. An example: Murder in the Dark is being performed at York Theatre Royal until 23 September 2023. The production is presented by Original Theatre, Trafalgar Theatre productions and JAS Theatricals. The director is Philip Franks. The rollercoaster plot was farce at its very best. It’s a play that may surprise those who’ve read the book. I’m no new arrival to the classic mysteries of Agatha Christie and yet I still loved this wonderful version of an absolute classic. Tudor Gates’s Who Killed “Agatha” Christie? features John, a failed playwright, who is obsessed with the notion that his career has been damaged by drama critic Arthur “Agatha” Christie. In revenge, he decides to concoct an ingenious plot to trap Arthur involving his own wife and Arthur’s partner who, it appears, have been having an affair. The play will run at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday 12 until Saturday 16 July.The older characters, however, are more convincingly rendered, and Tom Chambers makes for a strong leading man. As the play becomes increasingly disturbing and surreal, he provides an emotional anchor for the audience and manages to capture Danny’s increasing sense of anguish and paranoia. Rebecca Charles ’s recent theatre credits include The Dresser (Theatre Royal Bath), An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville Theatre), The Graduate (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Father (Duke of York’s/Wyndham’s/Tricycle/Theatre Royal Bath), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, (Salisbury Playhouse), The Old Country (English Touring Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Julius Caesar , (Barbican and Tour) and Great Expectations (Manchester Royal Exchange). Her film credits include The Heart of Me , Bridget Jones’s Diary , Shakespeare in Love and Mrs Brown . Henry Goodman stars as Hercule Poirot in a brand-new stage production of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express which visits Bath exclusively, direct from its opening at Chichester Festival Theatre. Appearing at the Theatre Royal Bath from Thursday 9 th to Saturday 25 th June, Christie’s thrilling murder mystery is directed by Jonathan Church, Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal’s Summer Season ( Betrayal, An Ideal Husband, The Price). David Callister and Susan Earnshaw are well cast as Nigel Forbes and Maxine Goodman, one a bumptious extrovert who thinks it is time to end their writing partnership, the other an irrational bundle of energy who is easily led.

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I can’t write in any more detail about the plot but my advice is for the audience to forget all preconceptions. One is led into what can only be described as an existential nightmare with non-sequential frighteners and haunting appearances aplenty. Watch out for the ghostly ballerina! A summer staple at the city centre venue since 1988, the season includes a comedy thriller, a classic Agatha Christie and a suspenseful murder mystery. But just after midnight, the Orient Express screeches to a halt, marooned by a snowdrift and by morning, one passenger is dead. Nobody can leave. A guard appears to be missing. A killer is in their midst. Poirot must deploy his ‘little grey cells’ on the most difficult case of his career: one that will force him to question his deepest beliefs. The season will open with another world premiere, Zimbabwean writer-performer Tonderai Munyevu’s Mugabe, My Dad & Me from September 9 to 18. His high-voltage one-man show charts the rise and fall of one of the most controversial politicians of the 20 th century, Robert Mugabe, through the personal story of Tonderai’s family and his relationship with his father as he considers familial love, identity and what it means to be “home”. In other witness accounts, after James Hatfield received more wounds from prisons and escaped, he found a lake where he could bathe his wounds, he claimed he was in heaven and that he was Adam [the biblical character] and made himself a ‘covering of boughs of trees’ to put round his waist.The season has changed over the years. Now, in the capable hands of Tabs Productions, it has moved away slightly from the original format. The opening scene drops you right into the action: unhappy with his lot, Victor wants out of his marriage.