... The Hollow Eastbourne Agatha Christie crafted clearly-defined characters for 11 actors in this gripping play at the Devonshire Park. Director Lionel Chilcott and the Newpalm company seized the roles and offer an excellent piece of work. Denis Huett and ...

... of two famous television names to the West Wales theatre failed to lift this production into the star class. Given the Agatha Christie formula of stereotyped middle class characters and dull dialogue, something special was required either by way of style ...

... mature for the young music-hall artiste Rose Adair and her wicked boss is played by David Bowen like an inspector in an Agatha Christie thriller. Pamela Buchner, however, plays a pillar of the local church as if she could support it herself and Steven G ...

... overacted melodrama. The same fate awaits the other actors. Cliff Brayshaw's Sergeant Stenning would be more at home in an Agatha Christie plot and Tiffany Dunlop and Claire Oberman, as the two women in Bartholomew's life, give convinc ing performances at the ...

... of the famous film need to be ignored when watching Murder on the Nile at the Devonshire Park Theatre, mostly because Agatha Christie did not have Poirot cruising down the river. It is Gilbert Vemon, thundering religiously as Canon Pennefather, who ...

... Stuart Hopps is rife with suspension, not about who did it, but about who is going to do it and to whom. It is set in Agatha Christie land where birds and women twitter, and sunshine and cloudless skies are all pan of country house living with Hopps poking ...

... And Then There Were None Eastbourne Television names and famous plays go well together at the Devonshire Park. This Agatha Christie icon describes some of the failings of those ten diverse characters who are stranded on an island, and the actors seize ...

... STYLISHLY period production of Ten Little Indians is now on national tour and currently playing at the Yvonne Arnaud. The Agatha Christie classic could become absurdly amusing unless handled with care. This is very much an ensemble success, starting from Paul ...

... The Hollow HAYES THE WORLD of Agatha Christie is as stylised and as far removed from reality as the world of pantomime; and once you accept the fantasy, you can have a delightfully entertaining time. Charles Vance has done a good job of casting the i ...

... lake in America where the friends of a successful novelist gather each year to cele brate Halloween. A great admirer of Agatha Christie, the host devises a typical Christie plot for them to solve with the winner naming their own prize. The pleasant atmosphere ...

... Christie with a Scottish angle Pitlochry And Then There Were None Few in the theatre are more acquainted with the work of Agatha Christie than Joan Knight. But the lady who was in charge of Perth Theatre for more than a quarter of a century is in no doubt ...

... played by R.A.D.A. students, demonstrating the different styles an actor has to master. Scenes from Shakespeare and Agatha Christie I from Farquhar and J. B. Priestley j from Private Lives and The Man Born to be King from Mother Courage and St ...