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Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast.\u00a0\u00a0Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N.\u00a0\u00a0Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime.\u00a0\u00a0When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.\u00a0\u00a0The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again\u2026 and again…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agatha Christie is our second-highest ranking author (JB Priestley is the highest).\u00a0\u00a0Her original book is the best-selling mystery in the world, and she adapted it herself into the play.\u00a0\u00a0In particular, she re-worked the book\u2019s ending so as to leave someone alive to tell the story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Laine (playing William Blore) remembers that he was killed when a stuffed bear fell on him.\u00a0\u00a0Sadly this happens off-stage so we don\u2019t get to see it! Another interesting oddity is that Steve Vere is credited with \u201cCalligraphy\u201d: this refers to the large picture over the fireplace showing the \u201cTen Little Indians\u201d poem from the book \u2013 this is repeated in the programme<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play was produced and directed by Tony Wood, assisted by Julie.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play called for lots of dramatic \u201cFX\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Emma Godley had two boxes of sound effects CDs, and a carefully written cue list, saying where to find each sound: which box it was in, which CD and which track.\u00a0\u00a0Good so far.\u00a0\u00a0I suspect you can guess where this story is going, but someone borrowed a disk part-way through the week and, unknown to Emma, two disks got mixed up.\u00a0\u00a0So\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0up comes the dramatic scene, so Emma cues up the \u201cthunderstorm\u201d track and turns it up loud.\u00a0\u00a0But what comes out instead is the sound of someone typing, at high volume!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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