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Agatha Christie's `None': Darkness and Light

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970306
Author:Lloyd Rose

Directing "And Then There Were None," which opened Tuesday at the Washington Shakespeare Company, John Emmert has aimed for irony and self-aware high style: the sort of delicious, sophisticated gloss he brought to his wicked Iachimo in WSC's recent "Cymbeline." The idea is to do for the old Agatha Christie chestnut what the famous Edward Gorey-designed "Dracula" did for that creaky old war horse -- wittily stylize it to showcase its darker elements. The problem on the stage at WSC is that in order for such a perverse and artificial tone to work, every actor has to be able to play the joke, ...

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