AND THEN THERE WERE NONE to Play the Wyvern

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, And Then There Were None returns to the stage to follow in the footsteps of the company's hugely successful Witness for the Prosecution and Black Coffee. The production also marks the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth. The cast, which includes Paul Nicholas and Ben Nealon, both of whom have tread the Wyvern boards before, are making their way to Swindon next week.

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is the world's best-selling mystery ever, with 100 million sales to date. Widely considered to be Christie's masterpiece, her own stage adaptation of this dark and captivating tale will thrill and enthral, as murder unfolds...

A group of 10 strangers is lured to a remote island off the coast of Devon. Upon arrival it is discovered that their host, an eccentric millionaire, is missing. At dinner a recorded message is played accusing each of them in turn of having a guilty secret and by the end of the evening the 10 guests become nine. Stranded on the island by a torrential storm and haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme, one by one the guests begin to die. And with only the fallen believed to be innocent who amongst them is the killer?

Sixties pop star-turned actor MARK WYNTER will star as Dr. Armstrong and will be joined by Bergerac and Peak Practice's DEBORAH GRANT as eccentric spinster Emily Brent. KEZIA BURROWS, best known as junior doctor Cath Llewellyn in the 2009 BBC drama series Crash, joins the cast as secretary Vera Claythorne.

They join Just Good Friends star PAUL NICHOLAS as judge Sir Lawrence Wargrave, COLIN BUCHANAN, who starred as Peter Pascoe in Dalziel and Pascoe, as retired police inspector William Henry Blore, former Blue Peter presenter and actor MARK CURRY as Rogers, Soldier Soldier's BEN NEALON as Philip Lombard and Bouquet of Barbed Wire's ERIC CARTE as General Mackenzie.

Paul Nicholas returns to the Wyvern after starring as Captain Hook in the Theatre's 2010 Pantomime Peter Pan, while Ben Nealon has starred in two previous Agatha Christie thrillers that have visited Swindon, Go Back for Murder and Black Coffee.

And Then There Were None will be at the Wyvern Theatre on From Mon 28 September - Sat 3 October, with tickets from £18.50.

Book your tickets now at swindontheatres.co.uk or by calling the Wyvern Ticket Office on 01793 524481 and be thrilled by the best-selling mystery of all time!

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