THE BEST-SELLING CRIME NOVEL OF ALL TIME ON A UK AND IRELAND TOUR FROM SEPTEMBER 2023
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
UK AND IRELAND TOUR From 7 September 2023
Written by Agatha Christie Directed by Lucy Bailey
Full casting is announced for the Fiery Angel, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and ROYO production of Agatha Christie’s iconic thriller And Then There Were None.
The full cast are Bob Barrett (Holby City, Propeller West End and UK Tour) as Doctor Armstrong, Joseph Beattie (Hex and Silent Witness) as Philip Lombard, Oliver Clayton (National Youth Theatre and The Play That Goes Wrong) as Anthony Marston, Jeffery Kissoon (National Theatre and Complicite, Allelujah!) as General Mackenzie, Andrew Lancel (National tours, West End and Coronation Street) as William Blore, Nicola May-Taylor (Rutherford And Son) as Jane Pinchbeck, Louise McNulty as Understudy, Katy Stephens (RSC, Globe and London’s Burning) as Emily Brent, Lucy Tregear (The Country Wife) as Georgina Rogers, Sophie Walter (The Girl On The Train) as Vera Claythorne, Matt Weyland (Witness For The Prosecution) as Narracott/Understudy, and David Yelland (Poirot, Foyle’s War and The Crown) as Judge Wargrave.
And Then There Were None will open at Royal & Derngate, Northampton on 7 September, with Press Night on 13 September and will run until 16 September 2023 before embarking on a UK and Ireland tour, gripping audiences up and down the country into 2024.
This brand-new production has been reinvented for the 21st century, directed by the renowned Lucy Bailey (Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution – now in its 6th successful year and Love From A Stranger; Dial M for Murder; Baby Doll; Titus Andronicus and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).
Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion off the coast of Devon. When a terrible storm cuts them off from the mainland, and with their hosts mysteriously absent, the true reason for their presence on the island becomes horribly clear, as secrets from their past come back to haunt each and every one of them.
And Then There Were None is not only Agatha Christie’s most read work, but also the best-selling crime novel of all time. Selling over a 100 million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1939.
In recent years there have been several high profile fresh and modern takes on Agatha Christie’s best loved titles in film, television, and on stage across the UK; all proving the enduring popularity and modern relevance of her work with global audiences.
Following her hugely successful production of Witness for the Prosecution, director Lucy Bailey returns with UK Theatre Award-winning set and costume designer Mike Britton, lighting designer Chris Davey and sound designer and composer Elizabeth Purnell, to direct this bold and exciting reinvention of Christie’s greatest murder mystery. Casting is by Ellie Collyer-Bristow CDG, the assistant director will be Victoria Gartner, fight direction by Renny Krupinski and movement direction by Ayse Tashkiran.
General Management for the tour is by Rich Jones with Production Management by Setting Line Production Management. The Stage Management Team will be Sian Wiggins, William Buckenham, Sara-Jayne Smith and Lewis Mote with Wardrobe headed by Natasha Hancock.
BOB BARRETT (DOCTOR ARMSTRONG)
His theatre credits include: Twelfth Night (Old Vic); A Midsummers Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice (All Propeller); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cyrano De Bergerac (Duke of York); The Recruiting officer, Victory, Of Mice and Men , Dancing At Lughnasa (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); After The Dance (Oxford Stage Company) and School for Scandal (Manchester Royal Exchange).
His screen credits include: Father Brown (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Absolutely Fabulous (Saunders & BBC); The Tenth Kingdom (Babelsberg Film); Inspector Alleyn (BBC); Holby City (BBC) and Shakespeare In Love (Universal Pictures).
JOSEPH BEATTIE (PHILIP LOMBARD)
His theatre credits include: Oliver (Edinburgh Festival for the National Youth Music Theatre); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hampton Court) and Roberto Zucco (Barbican).
His screen credits include: Mansfield Park (Company Pictures); Marple (ITV); Malice Aforethought (ITV); Words of the Blitz (ITV); Mr Selfridge (ITV), Obsession: Dark Desires (October Films); EastEnders (BBC); Midsummer Murders (ITV); Fast Track: No Limits (Image Action); Vincent (ITV), Holby City (BBC); Colditz (ITV); Seesaw (Film and General Productions); Tom Brown’s Schooldays (Company Pictures); Hex (Sony Pictures); Borgia (EOS Entertainment); Silent Witness (BBC); The Browning Version (Percy Main), Nature Unleashed: Volcano (GFT Entertainment); Brideshead Revisited (Miramax); The Sleeping Room (Movie Mogual Films) and Velvet Goldmine (Channel 4).
OLIVER CLAYTON (ANTHONY MARSTON)
His theatre credits include: The Play That Goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre); Man Down (Exploding Whale); Much Ado About Nothing (Exploding Whale); The Fall (National Youth Theatre) and Beat (National Youth Theatre).
His screen credits include: Flatmates (Zodiak Kids Studios); Overshadowed (BBC) and Doctors (BBC).
JEFFERY KISSOON (GENERAL MACKENZIE)
His theatre credits include: Shakespeare in The Abbey (Shakespeare Globe); In The Jungle Of Cities (Arcola); Julius Caesar, Measure For Measure, As You Like It, Love’s Labours Lost, The Jail Diary Of Albe Sachs, The Tempest (RSC); Waiting For Godot (WYP/Talawa); Antony And Cleopatra (Liverpool Everyman); The Mahabharata, Hamlet (Peter Brook, World Tour); Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oedipus, The King, Caucasian Chalk Circle (RNT/ Complicite); Merchant Of Venice, Oedipus The King, Oedipus Colonus, The Coup, Fix Up (RNT); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nathan The Wise (Chichester Festival Theatre); Life Is A Dream (Edinburgh/BAM); War And Peace (Shared Experience); Orestes (Tricycle/ UK Tour); Tamburlaine The Great (Bristol Old Vic/Barbican); The Tempest, Macbeth, Othello, The Merchant Of Venice, The Sign In Sidney Brutstein’s Window, The Tempest, The Way Of The World (Birmingham Rep); Othello, Last Missionary (Bristol Old Vic); Antony & Cleopatra (Talawa/Liverpool/Bloomsbury); Dr Faustus (Royal Exchange); The Free State (UK Tour); Tamburlaine (Citizens/Edinburgh); Barbarians (Greenwich); The Great And Small, Marino Faliero, Macbeth, Amazonia (Young Vic); Kingdom Of Earth (English Speaking Theatre Vienna); Life Is A Dream (Lyceum/Barbican/NY); King Lear (Derby Playhouse); Cheapside, The Island, The Meeting, The Dove (Warehouse Theatre); Resurrection (Lichfield/Garrick); An African Cargo (Nitro); The Archbishop And The Antichrist (Soho Theatre); City Sugar (Bush Theatre); Glorious Things, In The Solitude Of Cotton Fields (Almeida); Marat Sade, Oroonoko, Threepenny Opera (Citizens Theatre); Reflections (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Streamers (Liverpool Playhouse) and The Gods Are Not To Blame (Talawa).
ANDREW LANCEL (WILLIAM BLORE)
His theatre credits include: Stumped (Hampstead Theatre); The Sound of Music (UK Tour); Epstein The Man Who Made The Beatles (Leicester Square Theatre); The Small Hand (Theatre Royal Windsor, UK Tour); The Damned United (Leeds Playhouse); Twelve Angry Men (Garrick Theatre); A Judgement in Stone (UK Tour); Cilla the Musical (Liverpool Empire/UK Tour). He has appeared in repertory and world premieres at the Almeida and Chichester Festival.
His screen credits include: Cardiac Arrest (World Productions); The Bill (ITV); Coronation Street (ITV); Unforgotten (ITV); The Thief His Wife and The Canoe (ITV); Bad Girls (Shed Productions); Liverpool One (Lime Street Productions); Casualty (BBC); The Vice (ITV); Urban Gothic (Blackjack Productions); Merseybeat (BBC) and Queer as Folk (Red Production Company) City Central (BBC).
NICOLA MAY TAYLOR (JANE PINCHBECK)
Her theatre credits include: Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse); Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre); Rutherford And Son (National Theatre); The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre); Storylab and the Dissidents, The Kilburn Passion (Kiln Theatre); BirthRight, Might Never Happen (Doll’s Eye Theatre); Takeaway (Theatre 503) and Chicken Palace (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Her screen credits include: Eastenders (BBC) and Doctors (BBC).
LOUISE MCNULTY (UNDERSTUDY)
Her theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Facing North Theatre); Abridged On A Bridge (National Trust’s Castlefield Viaduct) and Much Ado About Nothing (Hope Mill Theatre, Shakespeare North Playhouse).
Louise is a member of Shakespeare North Playhouse’s first Ensemble, and has played Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth and Titania in the candlelit Lights On, Lights Off.
Her screen credits include: Emmerdale (ITV)
KATY STEPHANS (EMILY BRENT)
Her theatre credits include: Titus Andronicus, Much Ado about Nothing and The Tempest, The Oresteia, Thomas Tallis, Julius Caesar, Dr. Scroggy’s War, The Complete Walk (Shakespeare’s Globe); Coriolanus (Sheffield Crucible); Antony And Cleopatra (National Theatre) The Histories Cycle, As You Like It, Antony And Cleopatra, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Candide, The Grain Store, Taming of the Shrew (RSC); A Woman of No Importance (Classic Spring); Memory of Water (Nottingham Playhouse); Macbeth, View from the Bridge (Tobacco Factory); Othello (English Touring Theatre); Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (Hampstead); Forests (Calixto Beitio); Hamlet (Flute Theatre /ETT/ Trafalgar Studios); Midsummer Night’s’ Dream (BATH THEATRE ROYAL); Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic); Caucasian Chalk Circle, Macbeth, Ion, Three Sisters, The Seagull, Blood Wedding, Road, The Europeans (Colchester); The King’s Speech (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Birmingham Rep); The Father, Twelfth Night, Our Day Our And Silas Marner (Belgrade Theatre).
Her screen credits include: London’s Burning (ITV) and Relative Values (Encore Media Group).
LUCY TREGEAR (GEORGINA ROGERS)
Her theatre credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); A Parisian Salon (Senate House); Room (Stratford East, Abbey Theatre); Cocktail Sticks (Watermill) The Silver Sword (UK Tour); Relatively Speaking, Much Ado About Nothing, The Real Thing and The Memory of Water (Library), Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Woman Killed with Kindness (RSC); The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket); By Jeeves (Lyric); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Middlemarch, Seven Year Twitch, The Conspirators, Court in the Act, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Way of The World, Low Flying Aircraft, Portrait of a Woman as Flora, The Red Menace (Orange Tree), Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure (USA tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Exeter); The Taming of the Shrew (Dukes); The Winter’s Tale (Royal Exchange) and Lady Betty (Cheek By Jowl).
Her screen credits include: Manhunt (Buffalo Pictures); The Robinson (Busby Productions, Granada Television); Footballers’ Wives (Shed Productions); Family Affairs (Thames Television); Between The Lines and Peak Practice (Central, Carlton) and Romeo and Juliet (Metcalfe Gordon Productions).
SOPHIE WALTER (VERA CLAYTHORNE)
Her theatre credits include: The Girl On The Train (Barn Theatre) and Greedy (Southwark Playhouse).
Her screen credits include: Grantchester (ITV) and Riches (Amazon).
MATT WEYLAND (FRED NARRACOTT)
His theatre credits include: Emmeline (Cockpit Theatre & UK tour); Witness For The Prosecution (London County Hall); For The Sake of Argument (Bridewell Theatre); Alcotraz (London & Brighton); Bess: The Commoner Queen (Guildhall Derby & UK tour); Delorean (Assembly Rooms/Edinburgh Festival); Dr Blighty (Knuthut, Brighton Festival); The Crucible (Old Vic); Passion Play (Duke of York’s/West End); Dandy Dick (Theatre Royal Brighton & UK tour); Pinter’s New World Order (Hydrocracker/Brighton Festival); Porridge (Calibre Productions, UK tour); Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company UK tour); Treasure Island (Birmingham Stage Company, Old Rep & UK tour); The Caretaker (Marlborough Theatre/Brighton); Once A Catholic (Pavilion Theatre/Brighton); Snowy Night (Brighton Festival) and Sikes & Nancy (Nightingale Theatre/Brighton).
His screen credits includes: Hedda Gabler (MGM); Not Going Out (BBC); Detectorists Xmas Special (BBC); This England (Sky Atlantic); The Ipcress File (ITV); Suspicion (Apple TV+); Call The Midwife (BBC); Surge (BFI); EastEnders (BBC); The Crucible (Old Vic, Digital Theatre); Miranda (BBC); Crimewatch Solved (BBC); Dead Ringers (BBC); It’s Me or The Dog (Channel 4) and The Art Heist (Sky Arts).
DAVID YELLAND (JUDGE WARGRAVE)
His theatre credits include: The Habit of Art, Phaedra Britannica, Hamlet, John Gabriel Borkman, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Summer and Major Barbara (National Theatre); A Patriot for Me (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Time and the Conways, The Merchant of Venice, Rumours (Chichester Festival Theatre); An Ideal Husband (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Waste, The Seagull, King Lear (Old Vic); Deathtrap (Garrick Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Rules of the Game (Almeida Theatre); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Strand); The Seagull (Orange Tree); The Importance of Being Earnest (Old Vic); Richard III (Savoy); The Jew of Malta (The Almeida); God Only Knows (Vaudeville); Pirandello’s Henry IV (Donmar); Man and Boy (Duchess); Tosca’s Kiss (Orange Tree); Troilus & Cressida (Royal Shakespeare Company); For Services Rendered (The Watermill); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Prince of Wales Theatre, Toronto); The Circle and For King and Country, (Chichester Festival Theatre); Mrs Warren’s Profession (Theatre Royal Bath) and Single Spies (The Watermill).
His screen credits include: David Copperfield (BBC); Star Quality(BBC);The Bretts (Central Independent Television); Rumpole of the Bailey (BBC); Waking the Dead (BBC); The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (BBC); The Line of Beauty (BBC); Rocketman (BBC); Poirot (ITV); Love Soup (BBC); Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions); Spooks (BBC); Foyle’s War (Greenlit Productions); Eastenders (BBC); Law & Order UK (Kudos); Bones (20th Century Fox); The Crown (Sony Pictures Television); Reg (BBC); Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions); Father Brown (BBC) and Endeavour (ITV).
DATES AND VENUES
2023
Royal & Derngate, Northampton royalandderngate.co.uk
7 – 16 September 2023
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin gaietytheatre.ie
19 – 23 September 2023
Kings Theatre, Glasgow atgtickets.com/Glasgow
26 – 30 September 2023
Everyman, Cheltenham everymantheatre.org.uk
3 – 7 October 2023
Marlowe, Canterbury marlowetheatre.com
10 – 14 October 2023
Theatre Royal, Newcastle theatreroyal.co.uk
17 – 12 October 2023
Malvern Festival Theatre malvern-theatres.co.uk
24 – 28 October 2023
Richmond Theatre atgtickets.com/Richmond
31 – 4 November 2023
Sheffield Lyceum Theatre sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
7 – 11 November 2023
Cambridge Arts Theatre cambridgeartstheatre.com
13 –18 November 2023
York Opera House atgtickets.com/York
21 – 25 November 2023
2024
Theatre Royal, Brighton atgtickets.com/theatreroyal
9 – 13 January 2024
Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford yvonne-arnaud.co.uk
16 – 20 January 2024
Theatre Royal, Nottingham trch.co.uk
23 – 27 January 2024
Theatre Royal, Norwich norwichtheatre.org
30 – 3 February 2024
Milton Keynes Theatre atgtickets.com/MiltonKeynes
6 – 10 February 2024
Theatre Royal Bath theatreroyal.org.uk
20 – 24 February 2024
Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe wycombeswan.co.uk
27 – 2 March 2024
The Alexandra, Birmingham atgtickets.com/Birmingham
5 – 9 March 2024
Theatre Royal, Plymouth theatreroyal.com
12 – 16 March 2024
New Theatre, Cardiff newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
19 – 23 March 2024
Hall For Cornwall, Truro hallforcornwall.co.uk
26 – 30 March
Churchill Theatre, Bromley churchilltheatre.co.uk
2 – 6 April 2024
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton mayflower.org.uk
8 – 13 April 2024
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