Audition Information for
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Michael Thompson
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Audition Information
Audition Dates: Tuesday, September 6 & Wednesday, September 7 6:30pm - 8:00pm Audition Location: GracePoint Wesleyan Church Great Room 1420 Orchard Drive Brookings, SD 57006 Please use east parking lot doors and turn left (follow signs) Performance Dates: November 10 - 13, 2023 General Information for Auditions: PLEASE COME ONLY ONE NIGHT. WE WILL BE SEEING MANY ACTORS SO IN THE EFFORT OF TIME, WE ASK THAT YOU COME ONLY ONE NIGHT. THERE IS NO ADVANTAGE TO COMING ALL NIGHTS Please print and fill out the audition form below and bring with you to auditions. This form will also be available at the door. We are auditioning actors: age 16+. AUDITIONS WILL CONSIST OF: – Reading from the script – Director may lead improv exercises Brief SynopsisFamous detective Hercule Poirot is called back from Istanbul to London on urgent business. He intends to book a first-class compartment on the Orient Express, run by his former friend and colleague, Monsieur Bouc. The train is surprisingly full, but Bouc manages to secure Poirot a spot in the first-class cabin. While aboard the Orient Express, Poirot meets a host of peculiar characters: an aging Russian princess, her Swedish companion, a Hungarian countess, a Minnesota housewife, a Scottish colonel, an English governess, a French conductor, a disagreeable American businessman, and his anxious secretary. While aboard the train, the angry businessman, Samuel Ratchett, corners Poirot and demands Poirot to investigate a series of ominous letters that have been sent to Ratchett, threatening his life.
As a snowdrift halts the Orient Express in its tracks, Ratchett is found stabbed multiple times in his locked train compartment. Poirot is tasked by Monsieur Bouc to solve the murder, as the killer could still be in their midst. As Poirot investigates, conflicting clues and convoluted alibis lead him to dead ends. Over the course of 48 hours, will Poirot be able to solve the case of the Murder on the Orient Express? |
CastHercule Poirot (Male)
Monsieur Constantine Bouc (Male) Mary Debenham (Female) Hector MacQueen (Male) Michael the Conductor (Male) Princess Natalya Dragomiroff (Female) Greta Ohlsson (Female) Countess Elena Andrenyi (Female) Mrs. Helen Hubbard (Female) Samuel Ratchett/Bruno Cassetti (Male) Colonel James Arbuthnot (Male) Head Waiter (Male) 
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