(It isn't a Different Stages production without the expressionless yet likable Fay).ĭifferent Stages is noted for producing interesting lesser-known works by famous authors. King, Gerard is able to solve the crime without the help of local authority Colonel Carbery, played by Steven Fay. Gerard (Craig Kanne, who took the role four days before opening but had mastered the majority of his lines and blocking by the end of opening weekend). The most charming aspect of the show is the characters, most notably the Poirot stand-in, the amiable Dr. Moreno are the crackerjack comedians, relieving the terror of the arid Arab climate. Kathleen Lawson, William Holliman, Nicole Marosis, and especially T.J. Who is the culprit? Did she mean to drop her handbag? What's with the sexy, mysterious Italian girl? Different Stages Artistic Director Norman Blumensaadt has cast actors with hidden talents that play up the mystery, yet his staging intersperses the cliffhangers with comic relief. You're no good," she says.Įvery action creates suspicion, and with the anticipation of homicide that comes with a whodunit, we immediately have questions about everyone. "Can't you let me go? Please let me go," says Lennox. Boynton and her fearful progeny are full of brooding moments in which the stepchildren's motives for matricide are inflamed yet they surrender to defenseless resignation. Smith's Raymond is the picture of youth with his tail between his legs until he meets Sarah King (Nikki Zook), a perceptive doctor who fights Mrs. Boynton (played aggressively by Paula Gilbert) has an eerie, hypnotic hold on her grown stepchildren: Jinny (Jessica Medina) Lennox (Keith Yawn), husband to Nadine (Julie Winston-Thomas) and Raymond (Andy Smith).
We are hurriedly introduced to a cast of tourists who waft in and out barking orders at clerks wearing tarbooshes, giving their how-do-you-do's, and buzzing around a silent, morose Boynton family, seated at a table, staring into space.ĭressed in forbidding black, the matriarch Mrs. The mystery is an escape from the ongoing political drama of the region that engulfs us in the media today.Īs the lights come up in Different Stages' production, we see a yellowed picture of the King Solomon Hotel's lounge on the diminutive Vortex stage. In adapting her 1938 novel Appointment With Death for the stage, Christie removed her darling hero Hercule Poirot from the story, but the setting is still an exotic Jerusalem of the 1930s.
Agatha Christie's fascination with necrology of the Middle East pervades many of her novels and plays.
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