Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

Bump in Productions bring their third murder mystery to the Zenith Theatre in Chatswood.  And Then There Were None is Christie's best-selling novel, of course it has been renamed from the original title Ten Little Niggers, for obvious reasons. The novel has sold 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery.
The play is about 10 people who are brought to an island by a mystery guest who isn't there. On the wall is a poem about ten little soldiers and how each of them, one by one die until there were none! Of course all the guests start dying one by one as in the poem and the guests get more and more anxious about their own destiny.   The guests are typical middle class Brits, in the 1940's who are trying to better themselves and live the life of their dreams. Each of them have skeletons in the closet which they would rather leave there.
This production was clean and fluid. All the actors played out there part.  The staging is simple but effective though I did feel that the stage was too spacious for some parts of the play. My only other criticism was that is didn't seem tense enough.  I remember the first time I saw it on stage I must have been in my late teens and it was scary, so much so that my younger cousins and sister couldn't sleep.
However, it was great to see an Agatha Christie, it has stood the test of time very well.

This production is playing until 29 October, so book now to see a great classic.