Following sell-out tours of And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, producers Fiery Angel reunite with director Lucy Bailey (director of the West End hit Witness for the Prosecution) to bring one of Agatha Christie’s most psychologically intense mysteries to the stage.
Agatha Christie’s masterpiece THE HOLLOW – newly adapted by Tamsin Oglesby (National Theatre, Old Vic Theatre, RSC) – comes to 
Milton Keynes Theatre from Tue 19 – Sat 23 Jan 2027 as part of a major UK and Ireland tour. The production opens in October 2026 and will travel nationwide into 2027.
Casting will be announced in due course.
Renowned detective Hercule Poirot anticipates nothing more than a peaceful countryside retreat – but instead finds himself entangled in one of the most unsettling cases of his career.
At The Hollow, an elegant country estate, a glamorous group of guests gathers on a summer evening. Yet beneath the sunlit charm, darker forces begin to stir. Old passions refuse to fade, new rivalries take hold, and dangerous infatuations begin to surface.
Then — a shot rings out.
A body is discovered. 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, “As Death on the Nile continues its hugely successful tour, we are thrilled to be working once again with Lucy Bailey and Fiery Angel on this bold new production of The Hollow. 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 experience it anew.”
Having recently directed four of Christie’s classic thrillers for the stage, this marks Lucy Bailey’s fifth. She said, “The Hollow is one of Agatha Christie’s most powerful stories. At first glance it appears to be a classic country-house mystery, but it’s something far richer, a portrait of a family clinging to a fading world, caught between nostalgia and the unsettling pull of the future. Christie gathers a circle of brilliantly drawn characters to an English country estate and lets comedy, melancholy and long-buried family tensions simmer until a sudden act of violence shatters the illusion of civility. At the centre is Henrietta, a strikingly modern artist, fiercely independent and watching the emotional chaos around her.
When the unthinkable happens, it falls to the incomparable Hercule Poirot to unravel the truth. It’s a story about people trapped between the lives they have and the lives they longed for. That tension makes The Hollow feel startlingly contemporary.”
THE HOLLOW is produced by Fiery Angel in association with Agatha Christie Limited and the Marlowe Theatre Canterbury. It is directed by Lucy Bailey, with design by Joanna Parker, lighting design by Chris Davey, and casting by Ginny Schiller.
