Lost Flamingo Company presents a famous murder mystery play, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None will hit the theater this Saturday.
Lost Flamingo Company is back with an adaptation that will have the audience on a secluded island with the silhouette of death hovering over their shoulders.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, a 20th century cult classic novel, was adapted into a play and will be performed by student-run theater troupe Lost Flamingo Company at Baker Center Theatre on Saturday and Sunday.
The show is set in 1940s England where 10 people are invited to an island for a party by an unknown host. The play follows the mysterious deaths of the guests one-by-one, in an order specific to a certain nursery rhyme.
Christie, famously dubbed as the “duchess of death,” was adept at building mundane characters who are just the right amount of shifty. She would often observe people and their mannerisms and would use it to give her characters a more human touch.
“(Agatha Christie) is absolutely amazing,” David Arman, who is playing the character of Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, said. “She needs to have been a little insane herself to write characters this off the wall.”
A sophomore and the director of the play, Sarah Wagner, said it is the genius of Christie that makes it all possible and almost natural to direct with her excellent stage directions and subtle plot development. The play might primarily be a thriller, but it does a clever job of incorporating some dry humor in it as well, she added.
Arman said a lover of the novel will not be disappointed, as the ending of the play is quite different. It offers a new experience altogether.
A sophomore and the assistant director of the show, Alexis Chambers, said there is also an element of romance in the play.
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Chamber describes Captain Philip Lombard, a protagonist of the play, as “30, flirty and thriving.” Carly Wilson, who plays the love interest of Captain Lombard, Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, said it supplies the play with another dimension, making it more interesting.
“It is always fun to guess who the murderer is going to be. It’s a puzzle for the audience to enjoy,” Arman said. “Come in with an open mind and accusing eyes.”
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