{"id":2457,"date":"2019-09-22T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.szinapszis.org\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2019-09-22T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:56:21","slug":"and-then-there-were-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hok\/en\/2019\/09\/22\/and-then-there-were-none\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then There Were None"},"content":{"rendered":"

The uncrowned queen of the crime thriller, Agatha Christie was born 129 years ago. She was an especially successful and productive writer: she published 80 novels, which have been translated to many languages all over the world. After the Bible, and the works of Shakespeare, her novels have sold the most copies.<\/p>\n

The source of her success<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The success of Agatha Christie\u2019s books doesn\u2019t only come from the great twists, but also from her simple wording. All her books are easy to read, she shares information through conversations, she doesn\u2019t bore her audience with meaningless exposition, she focuses on the plot.<\/p>\n

This simple writing style is utilized by other bestseller writers like Stephen King and Danielle Steel as well. The point is to use short words and sentences, a word, on average shouldn\u2019t contain more than four characters, a paragraph shouldn\u2019t be more than three sentences. They don\u2019t use foreign expressions, this way they can present a writing, that\u2019s easy to understand.<\/p>\n

Her most successful novel<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Her novel, titled Ten Little Niggers was released in England in 1936, for the American release the title was changed to \u201cAnd Then There Were None\u201d \u2013 the change was necessary for political reasons, in the first movie adaptation the word \u201cnigger\u201d was changed in the poem, to \u201cIndian\u201d. With over 100 million copies sold, it\u2019s the world\u2019s most successful crime novel and sixth most successful novel of all time.<\/p>\n

And Then There Were None<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The story takes place on a small island, upon which a mansion stands. Ten people gather here: two are part of the staff, the others are guests \u2013 however the host is nowhere to be found. As they\u2019re preparing for dinner, an ominous voice reads their past crimes out loud \u2013 the source of the voice is a gramophone in the neighboring room. As they\u2019re contemplating just what is happening to them, one of them gets sick from their drink, and suffocates \u2013 just as it\u2019s written in a poem above the fireplace:<\/p>\n

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\u201eTen little nigger boys went out to dine<\/em><\/p>\n

One choked his little self, and then there were nine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Aside of the framed poem, there stand ten porcelain figures, after each death, one of these disappears. They soon find out they\u2019re alone on the island: there\u2019s no one there besides them, whoever is behind all this is amongst them. The mansion is separated from the outside world by the raging sea, the guests are left alone with the ten porcelain figures, and with someone, who keeps reducing both their, and the figures\u2019 numbers.<\/p>\n

On the stage<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In J\u00e1t\u00e9ksz\u00edn you can experience this drama adapted from the novel \u2013 the novel has been cleverly shortened to the length of a play, nothing is lost from the story, or the excitement. A play, that\u2019s able to give its full value even with only one location, has stood the test of the dramas \u2013 this is exactly what happened here. We only see the saloon of the mansion, the set doesn\u2019t change between acts, we can still follow almost every thread, and it\u2019s not distracting, when we only hear about something after it has happened in another part of the mansion.<\/p>\n

The actors give unmatched performances as Agatha Christie\u2019s as it were typical characters. The play is performed by: Tam\u00e1s S\u00e1ghy, Mikl\u00f3s Benedek, Vikt\u00f3ria L\u00e9vay, Andr\u00e1s Csonka, J\u00e1nos G\u00e1lv\u00f6lgyi, Steve Hajdu, M\u00e1t\u00e9 T\u00f3th, Gergely Csizmadia, Judit T\u00f3th, Korn\u00e9l Pusztaszeri, Kati Zsurzs, and Lili Horv\u00e1th. All of them fit their parts perfectly, and just like with every performance, one of the most exciting moments is, when after the bow, the actors regain their own faces.<\/p>\n

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The thriller is brought to life by the lighting and sound effects, we almost scream along with the frightened characters on stage, and we can take part in one of the most beautiful and shortest on-stage storms. The story never slows down for a moment, every single dialogue takes us closer to the conclusion, and where the writer and the director have composed tension, it delivers without a doubt.<\/p>\n

The theatre is small, this takes us physically close to the characters, thus it\u2019s easy to become fully engaged with what\u2019s happening \u2013 those in the first row are practically sitting on the stage, everything is easy to see even from the backmost seats of the gallery (we tested it ourselves).<\/p>\n

The play is full of surprises even for those, who know the story \u2013 some minor, and some bigger changes have been made at some points, in a way that doesn\u2019t in any way diminish from the values of the original work.<\/p>\n

Pictures: jegy.hu<\/p>\n

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