Why We Chose This Work: We love a good whodunnit! This classic murder mystery was revolutionary for its time, and it still hits all the right notes today. The creative team is taking a modern approach to staging of this show, include modern music remixed and re-recorded in vintage styles, and nontraditional gender casting. This play will be directed by Seattle-based director Jasmine Joshua (director of Irma Vep at Intiman in 2022, and has also directed at Reboot Theatre, Cafe Nordo, 5th Avenue, and Village Theatre). The original book has been lauded as the best crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers’ Association. Will this sleepy 1930s village ever feel quite so cozy again? Will Poirot be able to unravel the knots of this mystery? It’s a mystery!īook-It and local playwright Danielle Mohlman (author of Nexus and a renowned theatrical adaptation of Frankenstein) are crafting this brand-new script based on one of Dame Agatha Christie’s most innovative, clever, and mind-bending mysteries. Despite his desire to relax and grow vegetable marrows, the ingenious sleuth is compelled to snoop around this quaint hamlet and its surrounding countryside. After a pair of mysterious deaths - including one from inside a locked room – the famous detective Hercule Poirot is pulled out of retirement to solve the case. Gossip, blackmail, deception and betrayal unsettle the peaceful English village of King’s Abbot. “Always Bear in Mind That the Person Who Speaks May Be Lying”
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