Black Coffee by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot returns to the stage in Agatha Christie's Black Coffee, starring Jason Durr from ITV's hit series Heartbeat who returns to Kingston following his appearance in the Rose's acclaimed production of Donkey's Years earlier this year. He is joined by Gary Mavers, best known for the role of TV heart-throb doctor Andrew Attwood in Peak Practice, and Ben Nealon who played Captain Forsythe in ITV's Soldier Soldier.

A quintessential English Country estate is thrown into chaos following the murder of essenctric inventor Sir Claud Amory, and the theft of his new earth-shattering formula. Arriving at the estate just moments too late, one man immediately senses a potent brew of despair, treachery and deception amid the estate's occupants. That man is Hercule Poirot.

In the first play ever written by Agatha Christie we are introduced to a character who went on to become the most famous detective of all time and the only fictional character to receive a full-page obituary in the New York Times.