This classic story is just the ticket! Make tracks to MK and go see it.
You don’t just have to be a theatre lover to enjoy this magnificent production – if you love fashion, history, style and trains, there’s something in there for you too.
Trains? Yes, trains, because the stage set is brilliant and really takes you into the opulent world of first class travel on the railways – surely the classiest way to travel anywhere in the world.
The Milton Keynes Theatre stage basically turns into a train for large sections of this production, and you completely become engrossed in the story on board this most famous of rail journeys, the Orient Express. It's all done very cleverly and you view the iconic train from different angles throughout.
But there’s much more to this stage production than a wonderful setting. The storyline weaves and twists like a European railway track, the acting is first class, costume design breathtaking like a mountain pass and the way each larger than life character is introduced to the audience is just the ticket.
There’s a suspenseful story being played out in front of you, courtesy of what is said to be Agatha Christie’s finest book, but the excellent script adaption, from American playright Ken Ludwig, is littered with little snaps of comedy and some sharp and smart dialogue from a brilliant cast.
It’s winter 1934 and an avalanche has stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Whodunnit?
Lead player in this legendary story, Hercule Poirot (the excellent Michael Moloney) has to solve the conundrum. Moloney plays Christie’s famous detective so well you want to follow him off the platform and straight onto that famous train just to listen to him talk.
Grab a ticket and get on board! www.atgtickets.com/miltonkeynes
