Murder on the Nile

Synopsis

Opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 19 March 1946. Simon and Kay Mostyn are honeymooning aboard a Nile steamer. With them, apparently by accident, are Canon Pennefather, Kay's guardian and Jacqueline, Simon's ex-girlfriend. During the course of the voyage Jacqueline works herself into a state of hysteria and shoots as Simon, but only wounds him in the knee. A few minutes later Kay is found shot. Canon Pennefather lays bare an audacious conspiracy and ensures that the criminals shall not go free.

Our Review:

John Dixon - 24 July 2012

The Agatha Christie Company is presenting the 1940’s Murder on the Nile this year and the ship finally docked in Newcastle for a week as the mammoth tour (started January) nears its end. But the heat of Egypt was not only on stage, the auditorium was so hot you were wiping your brow along with the cast and ice cream sales must have boomed at the interval.

While the play is from a different era (as the story is a supposedly random group cruise up the Nile at a time of unrest and trouble on the financial markets) it hits a chord even today.

The plot revolves around Simon Mostyn and his wife Kay who are on their honeymoon, while his former fiancée seemingly haunts their every move. There is of course a murder and it is left to Canon Ambrose Pennefather (no Poirot or Marple here) to unravel the truth. Denis Lill, as the Canon, a regular of the Christie Company and consummate theatre professional, holds the production together.

The rest of the cast is made...

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