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Following a sell-out tour of the best-selling 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) will bring Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of another Agatha Christie classic to the stage in 2024. The UK & Ireland Tour of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS will open on 6 September at the Lowry in Salford and will continue through to 2025, finishing on 26 April at Brighton Theatre Royal.
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?
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is one of Agatha Christie’s greatest literary achievements, with a final twist that is amongst her very best. Gripping, tense and masterfully cryptic, this brand-new production is a deliciously thrilling ride and an ingenious murder mystery, guaranteed to keep you guessing until the end of the line.
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.”
Having 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 is to be announced.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS will be directed by Lucy Bailey and designed by Mike Britton, with lighting design by Oliver Fenwick.
Website: www.murderontheorientexpressplay.com
Instagram: @orientexpressplay
Facebook: @orientexpressplay
X: @orientexpressuk
TOUR SCHEDULE
2024
6-14 September The Lowry, Salford 0161 876 2000
www.thelowry.com on sale 21 February
17-21 September Norwich Theatre Royal 01603 630000
norwichtheatre.org on sale 23 February
24-28 September Theatre Royal Plymouth 01752 267222
www.theatreroyal.com on sale 1 March
1-5 October Canterbury Marlowe Theatre 01227 787787
www.marlowetheatre.com on sale 25 March
8-12 October Glasgow King’s Theatre
www.atgtickets.com/venues/kings-theatre-glasgow on sale 23 February
15-19 October Curve, Leicester
www.curveonline.co.uk on sale 7 March
22-26 October Edinburgh Festival Theatre 0131 529 6000
www.capitaltheatres.com on sale 28 February
29 October – 2 November Cambridge Arts Theatre 01223 503333
www.cambridgeartstheatre.com on sale soon
5-9 November Richmond Theatre, London
www.atgtickets.com/Richmond on sale 23 February
12-16 November Malvern Festival Theatre 01684 892277
www.malvern-theatres.co.uk on sale 20 February
19-23 November Truro Hall for Cornwall 01872 262 466
www.hallforcornwall.co.uk on sale 1 April
2025
14-18 January Newcastle Theatre Royal 0191 232 7010
www.theatreroyal.co.uk on sale 25 April
21-25 January The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford 01483 44 00 00
www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk on sale 4 March
28 January – 1 February Birmingham The Alexandra
www.atgtickets.com/birmingham on sale 23 February
4-8 February Sheffield Lyceum 0114 249 6000
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk on sale 23 March
11-15 February Aberdeen His Majesty’s Theatre
aberdeenperformingarts.com on sale soon
18-22 February Southampton Mayflower Theatre 02380 711 811
www.mayflower.org.uk on sale 10 April
25 February – 1 March Milton Keynes Theatre
www.atgtickets.com/venues/milton-keynes-theatre on sale 23 February
4-8 March New Theatre, Cardiff 0343 310 0041
www.trafalgartickets.com/new-theatre-cardiff on sale soon
25-29 March York Grand Opera House
www.atgtickets.com/york on sale 23 February
1- 5 April Nottingham Theatre Royal 0115 989 5555
www.trch.co.uk on sale 26 February
8-12 April Gaiety Theatre, Dublin 00 353 1 646 8600
www.gaietytheatre.ie on sale soon
22-26 April Theatre Royal Brighton
www.atgtickets.com/brighton on sale soon
Further dates to be added.
21st February 2024
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