Murder on the Orient Express

 

Murder on the Orient Express, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2022.

Cast: Henry Goodman, Matt Addis, Philip Cairns, Taz Munyaneza, Sara Stewart, Samuel Collings, Patrick Robinson, Marc Antolin, Joanna McCallum, Joanna Van Kampen, Timothy Watson, Laura Rogers, Kelvin Ade, Joelie Dyson, Jacqueline Tate, Sophie Bye/Eleanor Sebastian.

Adapted by Ken Ludwig

Director: Jonathan Church

I was intrigued by how they were going to do the train on stage and in the end it was small pods, almost like a narrow gauge railway, but with the huge front of the train at the back of the stage occasionally. [In the touring version I saw a few years later they did the carriage differently and they worked a bit better, which surprised me as usually the touring version would be the "cheaper" one.] The lost a couple of characters to make it all a bit more manageable and although I knew how it ended I really enjoyed it. Poirot is tricky character to play but I think he did okay with this.