Full-Length Play, Drama
And Then There Were None
A dark thriller in three acts. One of Christie’s most foreboding tales and a masterpiece of dramatic construction, this classic play’s growing sense of dread and unfaltering tension will keep you guessing to the very end.
- Cast Size
- 3w, 8m
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Subgenre
- Adaptation (Literature), Mystery/Thriller
- Target Audience
- Appropriate for All Audiences
Details
Summary
A dark thriller in three acts. One of Christie’s most foreboding tales and a masterpiece of dramatic construction, this classic play’s growing sense of dread and unfaltering tension will keep you guessing to the very end.
Description
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; one by one, they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme about “Ten Little Soldier Boys.”
In writing the stage version of one 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 alternate version of the play’s ending, drawn from the novel and using only Agatha Christie’s own words, is now available via digital download. See the product options here.
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Performing Groups
Content Notes
Production Notes
- Type
- Full-Length Play
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Setting
The living room of the house on Soldier Island, off the coast of Devon. 1940s. August.
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Materials
- Imprint
- Samuel French, Inc.
- ISBN
- 9780573702310
- Scripts
- Script 1