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'You have to be taken inside Poirot's brain': Ken Ludwig on the secret to adapting Agatha Christie

by Mark Lawson

The US playwright and anglophile behind much-revived comedies has a flair for crime and is following a crowd-pleasing Murder on the Orient Express with Death on the Nile If you ever face a quiz question about the most performed theatre writers in the world, likely to have a play on somewhere every day, William Shakespeare, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Agatha Christie are all reliable answers but a fourth may surprise you:…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:12am on April 29, 2025