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.

And Then There Were None
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.

Keywords

BetrayalDeathLove

Cast Attributes

Not ApplicableInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesContemporary

Performing Groups

High School/SecondaryCollege Theatre/StudentCommunity TheatreDinner TheatreProfessional TheatreReader’s TheatreShoestring BudgetLarge Stage

Content Notes

Mild Adult Themes

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.

Genres & Tags

DramaAdaptation (Literature)Mystery/ThrillerBetrayalDeathLove

Materials

Imprint
Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN
9780573702310
Scripts
Script 1

Authors