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Murder on the Orient Express

after Agatha Christie

Theatre
Marguerre-Saal
prepared for the stage by Ken Ludwig / translated from English by Michael Raab / in German without supertitles
[recommended for ages 14 and up]

An American businessman is murdered mysteriously and brutally during a journey on the Orient Express from Istanbul to Calais. The famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot happens to be one of the fellow travellers. He suspects that the author of the crime is still on board the train – and begins to investigate. While the luxury train is stuck in the snow, the plot thickens inside the carriages.

This is the first official stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous 1934 mystery. It is a stroke of luck that the American playwright Ken Ludwig (b. 1950, »Lend me a Tenor«) was commissioned for the adaptation: his characters and script cleverly condense the plot, while carefully underlining and updating the comic potential of the murder mystery.

Direction
Stage and Costumes
Lighting Design
Ralph Schanz
Video
Dramaturgy
Hercule Poirot
Monsieur Bouc
Mary Debenham
Hector MacQueen
Schaffner/Oberkellner
Prinzessin Dragomiroff
Greta Ohlsson
Gräfin Andrenyi
Helen Hubbard
Oberst Arbuthnot
Samuel Ratchett
Statisterie des Theaters und Orchesters Heidelberg
Im Vorspiel
Kleines Mädchen
Clara Eisenträger
Mutter
Assistant Director
Therese von Aretin
Costume Assistant
Nora Kirschmeier
Assistant Stage Design
Chris Koch
Direction Hospitanz
Lucia Jurkovičová, Amélie Münster
Stage Manager
Joris Freisinger
Soufflage
Sara Eichhorn
Stage Foreman
Andreas Murph Leirich
Lighting Master
N. N.
Technical Director
Peer Rudolph
Assistant to the Head of Technical Manager
Aysha Tetzner
Assistant to the Technical Director
Nadine Bork
Technical Production Manager
Jens Weise
Head of Stage Technology
Michaela Abts
Eventmanager Stage Technology
Murph Andreas Leirich
Head of the Lighting Department
Ralf Kabrhel
Head of Sound Department
Alexander Wodniok
Sound Master
Konstantin Springer, Nils Bradatsch
Voluntary Social Year in Culture Sound
Edda Wasserbauer
Head of Video
Hanna Green, Tom Wernecke
Video setup
Lea Fröhlich, Barnaby Vardigans
Head of Costume Department
Katharina Kromminga, Kristina Flachs (Deputy)
Costume Painter
Kristina Flachs
Head of the Dressing Room
Sabrina Flitsch, Pia Derbani
Wardrobe Master Men
Katja Ulrich
Wardrobe Master Women
Karen Becker
Head of Make-up
Kerstin Geiger
Make-up Artist
Ramona Bauer, Kerstin Glinz, Merit Grave
Head of Props
Anna Waldenmaier, Jürgen Kohl-Wilz (Stellv.)
Props Manager
Josef Cernohous, Raphaela Cemgia
Head of the Paint Shop
Dietmar Lechner
Head of the Decoration Workshop
Markus Rothmund
Head of the Metal Workshop
Karl-Heinz Weis
Head of the Carpentry
Klaus Volpp
Decoration Construction
Jonscher Backstage GmbH
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Trailer by Siegersbuschfilm

»Die Legende lebt«, freut sich Heribert Vogt in der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (3. April 2023) über den Halt des Orientexpress auf der Bühne des Marguerre-Saals. Der »ganz eigenständige Zugriff« von Regisseur Christian Brey biete einen »sehr unterhaltsamen Abend«. Dem Rezensenten gefällt die »raffinierte« Ausstattung - »hat Stil wie Klasse« - wie auch das Spiel - »mit viel Schwung und Situationskomik«, das den Abend »auf volle Touren hochdreht«: »Jubelnde[r] Applaus mit Bravorufen«.

Hercule Poirot tauge immer noch »für ein Bühnen-Vergnügen«, von Regisseur Christian Brey mit »kräftigen, komödiantischen Farben inszeniert«, meint Eckhard Britsch im Mannheimer Morgen (3. April 2023). Das Stück mache »ohne Zweifel etwas her«, dank der »geschickt entworfenen« Ausstattung von Anette Hachmann wie auch den »lustvoll ausgespielten« Figuren der Komödie.

© 2018 Agatha Christie Limited & Ken Ludwig. All rights reserved. / Adapted from Murder on the Orient Express © 1934 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved. / MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, AGATHA CHRISTIE AND POIROT are registered trademarks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and elsewhere. All rights reserved.
Wir bedanken uns bei den Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH für die freundliche Unterstützung.