Renowned detective Hercule Poirot expected a quiet break in the country; instead, he’s drawn into one of the most unsettling cases of his career.

At The Hollow, an elegant country estate, a glamorous circle of guests gather together one summer evening. But beneath the sunlit charm, something darker coils. Old passions refuse to die. New rivalries ignite. Dangerous infatuations take hold. 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.

Following sell-out tours of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Fiery Angel reunites with director Lucy Bailey to bring this darkly seductive new staging of one of Agatha Christie’s most compelling mysteries, The Hollow, to theatres across the UK.

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Lucy Bailey on The Hollow

The Hollow is one of Agatha Christie’s most powerful and arresting plays. At first glance it appears to be a classic country-house mystery, but it’s something far richer: a family ruthlessly clinging to the past, failed relationships and illicit love.

Christie gathers a circle of brilliantly drawn characters to an English country estate and lets long-buried family tensions simmer until a sudden act of violence shatters the idyll. When the unthinkable happens, it falls to the incomparable Hercule Poirot to unravel the truth.

Equally comic and tragic, it’s a play about people trapped between the lives they have and the lives they longed for. That tension makes The Hollow feel startlingly contemporary.

Whatsonstage features Peter Polycarpou on its website announcing the tour dates.

To book near you, click on the theatre link. These are the confirmed dates so far.

w/c 5 October 2026 CANTERBURY Marlowe Theatre 

w/c 12 October 2026 CANTERBURY Marlowe Theatre 

w/c 19 October 2026 TRURO Hall For Cornwall 

w/c 26 October 2026 RICHMOND Richmond Theatre 

w/c 2 November 2026 BELFAST Grand Opera House 

w/c 9 November 2026 NEWCASTLE Theatre Royal 

w/ 16 November 2026 CARDIFF New Theatre 

w/c 23 November 2026 GUILDFORD Yvonne Arnaud 

w/c 11 January 2027 BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Theatre 

w/c 18 January 2027 MILTON KEYNES Milton Keynes Theatre 

w/c 25 January 2027 NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal 

w/c 1 February 2027 BRIGHTON Theatre Royal 

w/c 8 February 2027 EDINBURGH Festival Theatre 

w/c 22 February 2027 ABERDEEN His Majesty’s Theatre 

w/c 1 March 2027 CHELTENHAM Everyman Theatre 

w/c 15 March 2027 MALVERN Festival Theatre 

w/c 22 March 2027 SHEFFIELD Lyceum Theatre 

w/c 29 March 2027 BATH Theatre Royal 

w/c 5 April 2027, CAMBRIDGE Arts Theatre 

w/c 12 April 2027 PLYMOUTH Theatre Royal 

w/c 19 April 2027 SALFORD The Lowry 

w/c 26 April 2027 LEEDS Playhouse Theatre 

w/c 3 May 2027 NORWICH Norwich Theatre 

w/c 10 May 2027 DUBLIN Gaiety Theatre 

w/c 17 May 2027, YORK Grand Opera House 

w/c 24 May 2027 GLASGOW Theatre Royal