L.A. Theatre Works has commissioned a new audio theater adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie “whodunit” The Murder on the Links. The all-star cast includes Alfred Molina (as Christie’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot), Simon Helberg, Adhir Kalyan, Joanne Whalley, Kevin Daniels, Edita Brychta, Darren Richardson, Jocelyn Towne and Matthew Wolf. Written by the BBC’s Kate McAll, who previously adapted the novels Frankenstein, Daniel Deronda and A Room with a View for LATW. Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson, the world premiere will be released as a state-of-the-art audio recording on July 1. Purchase of the recording includes access to a digital video “inside look” at a table read with the cast.
In Christie’s clever and beautifully crafted tale, Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter from Paul Renauld summoning him to France. Upon their arrival, Poirot and his companion, Arthur Hastings (Helberg), find they are too late. Plus, to complicate things further, certain facts just don’t add up.
When Christie’s novel was first published in 1923, The Times Literary Supplement called it “an enthralling mystery of an unusual kind,” and The New York Times wrote, “The plot has peculiar complications and the reader will have to be very astute indeed if he guesses who the criminal is until the last complexity has been unraveled.”
for tickets ($20 — the entire 9-play 2020-21 season is $150), visit LATW
available July 1, 2021
