Murder on the Orient Express
after Agatha Christie
Marguerre-Saal
[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.
Trailer by Siegersbuschfilm