Agatha Christie’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Plays Zenith Theatre Muder Mystery Series, 10/19-29

Following on from the success of The Mousetrap at the Zenith Theatre in April this year, Bump In Productions are excited to present the third fully professional production in their spine-tingling Zenith Theatre Murder Mysteries series, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None playing from 19th - 29th October.

And Then There Were None is the stage play based on Agatha Christie's bestselling novel of all time -Ten Little Niggers which was quickly retitled Ten Little Indians due to political and ethnic sensitivities and subsequently retitled And Then There Were None. Having sold more than 100 million copies, this novel is the world's bestselling book of all time (with the exception of the Bible), and Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time having sold more books than any other author in the world.

A deadly game of human skittles is played out in a luxury villa on an isolated island off the coast of Devon. Eight guests, each with a guilty secret have never met one another, nor have they met their host. They are introduced to the butler, the housekeeper and the boatman. A cluster of ten little soldier boy statuettes sits on the mantelpiece and a nursery rhyme, embossed above them, tells how each little soldier boy met his death, until there were none. Nobody's safe, everybody's suspicious - even after all the clues and explanations - it's still anybody's guess as to who the ingenious killer is. It's a matter of life and death that will keep you on The Edge of your seat ‘til the very last heart-stopping moment.

Written in 1939 during the second world war, Ten Little Niggers was praised by the New York Times Book Review in 1940 as "..utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery that Agatha Christie has ever written." The Observer wrote: "..one of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies yet written." And The Toronto Daily Star: "She is at her most ingenious and most surprising." While the identity of the murderer is the same in the stage play as the novel, the outcome of who survives is very different. And Then There Were None is considered by many to be one of the greatest mysteries ever written and was lauded at the time for its near insolvability.

Featuring the same creative team as The Mousetrap, Director Adrian Barnes has assembled a stellar cast of 11 actors with Set Design by Simon Greer. Adrian has just returned from a spell in New York where he directed a season of the Adelaide/ Edinburgh Festival hit production, The Day The Sky Turned Black to great critical acclaim.

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