Murder on the Orient Express, Norwich Theatre Royal, 2024.
Cast: Michael Maloney, Bob Barrett, Mila Carter, Debbie Chazen, Rebecca Charles, Simon Cotton, Jean-Baptiste Fillon, Christie Kavanagh, Paul Keating, Iniki Mariano, Rishi Rian, Alex Stedman, Antony Gabriel, Jasmine Raymond, Beth Tuckey.
Writer: Agatha Christie
Adapted by: Ken Ludwig
Director: Lucy Bailey
The obvious first thought about this is, "how will they do the train on stage?" Well when I first saw this at Chichester they did small carriages, about the size of a golf cart, that didn't particularly work. For the tour they did a much larger representation of a train that worked a lot better.
Lucy Bailey is back, because she's obviously the Queen of Christie, and Bob Barrett is back too (Casualty) who also keeps popping up in these adaptations. Interesting to see Paul Keating, who was in the original production of the Pet Shop Boys Closer to Heaven, who didn't seem to have aged much in all that time.
Some of the characters are omitted to make it easier to stage but I think it still works well. There's no stopping the Christie plays.
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