UK & Eire Tour of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

The place and when?

Lucy Bailey’s new manufacturing of the UK & Eire Tour of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS will open on 6 September on the Lowry in Salford and working via to three Could 2025 on the Cheltenham Everyman. See full tour dates under.

Who’s within the forged?

Becoming a member of the beforehand introduced Michael Maloney as Agatha Christie’s well-known Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, in Lucy Bailey’s new manufacturing of the UK & Eire Tour of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, shall be Bob Barrett as Monsieur Bouc, Mila Carter as Countess Elena Andreyni, Rebecca Charles as Greta Ohlsonn, Debbie Chazen as Princess Dragomiroff, Simon Cotton as Samuel Ratchett, Jean-Baptiste Fillon as Michel, Christine Kavanagh as Helen Hubbard, Paul Keating as Hector MacQueen, Iniki Mariano as Mary Debenham, Rishi Rian as The Colonel and Alex Stedman as Head Waiter. Additionally within the forged are Jasmine Raymond and Beth Tuckey.

Inventive workforce

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS shall be directed by Lucy Bailey (Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Have been None, The Different Boleyn Lady) and designed by Mike Britton, with lighting design by Oliver Fenwick, video design by Ian Galloway, sound design by Mic Pool, motion course by Leah Hausman, casting by Abby Galvin and with Victoria Gartner as assistant director. 

What’s the present about?

Winter 1934 and an avalanche stops the Orient Specific useless in its tracks.  An American tycoon lies useless in his compartment, stabbed eight instances, his door locked from the within. Trapped within the snow with a killer nonetheless on board, can the world’s most well-known detective, Hercule Poirot, crack the case earlier than the prepare reaches its closing vacation spot?

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is certainly one of Agatha Christie’s biggest literary achievements, with a closing twist that’s amongst her easiest.  Gripping, tense and masterfully cryptic, this brand-new manufacturing is a deliciously thrilling journey and an ingenious homicide thriller, assured to maintain you guessing till the tip of the road.

Assisted performances

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Tour dates        

2024

6-14 September  – The Lowry, Salford www.thelowry.com 

17-21 September – Norwich Theatre Royal – norwichtheatre.org                                                                                              

24-28 September – Theatre Royal Plymouth www.theatreroyal.com                                                                          

1-5 October – Canterbury Marlowe Theatre www.marlowetheatre.com 

8-12 October – Glasgow King’s Theatre https://www.atgtickets.com/venues/kings-theatre-glasgow   

15-19 October – Curve, Leicester www.curveonline.co.uk

22-26 October – Edinburgh Pageant Theatre www.capitaltheatres.com                                                                     

29 October – 2 November – Cambridge Arts Theatre www.cambridgeartstheatre.com                                                       

5-9 November – Richmond Theatre, London www.atgtickets.com/Richmond                                                          

12-16 November  – Malvern Pageant Theatre www.malvern-theatres.co.uk                                                              

19-23 November – Truro Corridor for Cornwall www.hallforcornwall.co.uk

2025