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Surflight’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ Shows Why Agatha Christie Rules

A Perfectly Written Mystery With Quite the Surprise Ending


Playwright Ken Ludwig, the current king of American stage comedy, reined himself in when he adapted the undisputed all-time queen of mysteries Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” Ludwig is a master of farce with its implausible situations, mistaken identities, simultaneous entrances and exits, exaggerated characters, and use of ridiculous disguises. So it wasn’t surprising that when he adapted […]


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