“And they’re all wrong, and then after there’s just the sense of enjoyment of having been tricked and manipulated in such a clever and satisfying way by Agatha Christie’s plot turns.” “At interval, people on either side of me just start spontaneously talking about who they think is responsible for the crime and they all have very strong convictions,” Ms Nevin says.
When the characters learn that a local woman has been murdered and a second murder then takes place during the play, it’s up to a detective (and the audience) to figure out who the killer is. The play itself follows seven adult characters: the newlyweds running the guest house, a spinster, an architect, a retired Army major, a man who claims his car overturned in a drift and a jurist.
Ms Nevin says the depth comes from the dark inspiration for the play, the real-life testimony of a 10-year-old British boy against his foster parents after the death of his brother in the 1940s. It was ultimately effective as a piece of writing, entertaining, funny and also quite deep.” “The plot is very cleverly constructed and the revelation at the end works terribly well. The characters are very interesting because each of them is carrying the burden of a secret from their past which, of course, interested me enormously because there’s a psychological depth to the characters that you can explore in the rehearsal process and which we did indeed explore,” she explains. I was very aware of its history of success in London, but beyond that, I didn’t really know very much about Agatha Christie,” she says.īut Ms Nevin, who served as the artistic director at the Queensland and Sydney theatre companies, was immediately convinced when she read the play herself. However, when Australian theatre stalwart Robyn Nevin was first invited by producer John Frost to direct this tour of the classic, she had her doubts. READ ALSO UC students’ work selected for Academy Award-qualifying film festival
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