And Then There Were None
Sprechtheater
Schauspiel, Krimi
Werkangaben: by Agatha Christie / A dark thriller in three acts
Sprache: Englisch
Besetzung:
3D,
7H
Bstnr/Signatur: 6320
Rechtevertretung: English language rights available for amateur and professional productions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. License requests for all other countries kindly direct to Agatha Christie Limited, London (http: / / www.agathachristie.com / about-agatha-christie-limited)
Dauer:
abendfüllend
In TTX seit: 01.09.2016
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.
One of Christie’s darkest tales and a masterpiece of dramatic construction, its growing sense of dread and unfaltering tension will keep you guessing to the very end.
In writing the stage version of her most successful and darkest novels during the Second World War, Agatha Christie responded to the mood of the times by introducing a more positive ending. The play was a smash hit in the West End and on Broadway. The play is now available with this ending and with an alternative ending, drawn from the novel and using entirely Agatha Christie's own words.
"My grandmother’s play has been performed successfully all over the world since its première in 1943 with an ending which is unique to the play and is not that of the novel on which it is based. There is much evidence that this was not her initial intention but was instead the result of what was perceived to be the needs of audiences at a very dark time in history. My grandmother never shied from taking notice of others’ input and the success then and since of the play vindicates her approach and their views.
In recent years enterprising producers presenting to, perhaps, more inquiring audiences have experimented with incorporating the novel’s ending in the play. This, too, has been well received leading to a controversy as to which is the "real” ending. I have no intention of settling this controversy. Instead, on the 125th anniversary of my grandmother’s birth, I wish to make the choice available to all producers and directors to express their view as to the writer’s intention by enabling them to choose from the 1943 (play) ending and the 1939 (novel) ending.
Drawing on papers and correspondence at the time of production and on archive material, I have commissioned a dramatic version of the novel’s close. Both dramatic endings begin their unraveling with Lombard’s line to Vera: "You – young, lovely, and quite, quite mad”. After that, readers, producers and directors face the same choice that my grandmother faced."
Mathew Prichard
Torquay, England
September, 2015.
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