Poirot thriller The Hollow to tour the UK and Ireland

A stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Hollow will tour the UK and Ireland.

The production is brought to the stage by producers Fiery Angel and director Lucy Bailey, the team behind tours of And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile. This new version is by Tamsin Oglesby.

It again follows Hercule Poirot, who is drawn into an unsettling case while attempting to take a break at a country estate where a glamorous circle of guests gathers.

The Hollow will open at Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, on 9 October before touring nationwide into 2027. The tour will visit Hall for Cornwall, Truro (20 to 24 October), Richmond Theatre (27 to 31 October), Grand Opera House, Belfast (3 to 7 November), Newcastle Theatre Royal (10 to 14 November), New Theatre Cardiff (17 to 21 November), Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford (24 to 28 November), with further dates to be confirmed.

James Prichard of Agatha Christie Limited said: “As Death on the Nile continues its hugely successful tour, we are thrilled to be working once again with Lucy Bailey and Fiery Angel on this bold new production of The Hollow. A sharply observed and unsettling drama, it showcases a fascinatingly different facet of my great-grandmother’s storytelling, and we are excited for audiences across the UK and Ireland to experience it anew.”

This is Bailey’s fifth time directing Christie’s classic thrillers, and she says The Hollow is one of her most powerful: “At first glance it appears to be a classic country-house mystery, but it’s something far richer, a portrait of a family clinging to a fading world, caught between nostalgia and the unsettling pull of the future. Christie gathers a circle of brilliantly drawn characters to an English country estate and lets comedy, melancholy and long-buried family tensions simmer until a sudden act of violence shatters the illusion of civility.”

She continues: “At the centre is Henrietta, a strikingly modern artist, fiercely independent and watching the emotional chaos around her. When the unthinkable happens, it falls to the incomparable Hercule Poirot to unravel the truth. It’s a story about people trapped between the lives they have and the lives they long for. That tension makes The Hollow feel startlingly contemporary.”

The Hollow is produced by Fiery Angel in association with Agatha Christie Limited and the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. It is designed by Joanna Parker, with lighting designed by Chris Davey and casting by Ginny Schiller. Casting will be announced at a later date.