Peter Polycarpou to play Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s The Hollow in Nottingham
Two-time Olivier Award nominee Peter Polycarpou will play Agatha Christie’s legendary detective Hercule Poirot in The Hollow when it comes to Nottingham.
Peter Polycarpou’s recent stage credits include Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Hello, Dolly!, while his screen work includes House of the Dragon, Birds of a Feather, The Brutalist and Evita.
He received Olivier nominations for his performances in Oslo and The Band’s Visit.
Following sell-out tours of And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, producers Fiery Angel and director Lucy Bailey team up once again to bring one of Agatha Christie’s psychologically complex mysteries to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal next year from January 26-30.
Expecting a quiet break in the country Poirot instead finds himself drawn into one of the most unsettling cases of his career.
At The Hollow, an elegant country estate, a glamorous circle of guests gather together one summer evening.
But beneath the sunlit charm, something darker coils.
Old passions refuse to die, new rivalries ignite, dangerous infatuations take hold.
Then – a shot rings out.
A body is discovered and a smoking revolver in an unsteady hand.
The scene appears almost staged, a shockingly straightforward crime – it is anything but.
James Prichard of Agatha Christie Limited said: The Hollow is 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 xperience it anew."
Director Lucy Bailey said: “The Hollow is one of Agatha Christie’s most powerful and arresting plays.
"At first glance it appears to be a classic country-house mystery, but it’s something far richer – a family ruthlessly clinging to the past, failed relationships and illicit love.
"Christie gathers a circle of brilliantly-drawn characters to an English country estate and lets long-buried family tensions simmer until a sudden act of violence shatters the idyll.
"When the unthinkable happens, it falls to the incomparable Hercule Poirot to unravel the truth.
"Equally comic and tragic, it’s a play about people trapped between the lives they have and the lives they longed for.
"That tension makes The Hollow feel startlingly contemporary.”
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