Hallowe'en Party
Award-winning actress Zoë Wanamaker makes a welcome return alongside David Suchet, as Mrs Ariadne Oliver, in the new film adaptation of the Poirot mystery Hallowe’en Party. Zoë made her first appearance as Mrs Ariadne Oliver in the Agatha Christie film adaptation, Cards On The Table in 2005 and in 2008 appeared in Mrs McGinty’s Dead and Third Girl.
Adapted by actor, screenwriter and novelist, Mark Gatiss (Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen, Crooked House), Hallowe’en Party, also stars Amelia Bullmore (Bellamy’s People, Ashes to Ashes), Deborah Findlay (Gunrush, Silent Witness), Georgia King (Little Dorrit, St. Trinian’s: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing, Oliver Twist), Sophie Thompson (A Room With A View, EastEnders), Paul Thornley (Mutual Friends, Love Soup), Eric Sykes (The Goon Show), Fenella Woolgar (Doctor Who, Jekyll) and Timothy West (Bleak House, A Room With A View).
When Mrs Ariadne Oliver attends a children's Hallowe'en party in Woodleigh Common with her friend Judith, a young girl Joyce Reynolds boasts of having witnessed a murder years before. Joyce's story is heard by all the party, including her strange brother Leopold, the impeccable hostess Rowena Drake, her bookish son Edmund and the local Reverend Cottrell. Mrs Whittaker, the church organist, and Frances Drake, Rowena's feisty daughter, are dismissive of her story but later that evening one of their party is found dead.
Hallowe’en Party is currently being filmed on location in Oxford. It is directed by Charles Palmer and the producer is Karen Thrussell (Agatha Christie’s Marple).
The Poirot films are co-produced by ITV Studios and Agatha Christie Ltd, a Chorion company, and US network WGBH. Mammoth Screen’s Michele Buck and Damien Timmer executive produce Poirot on behalf of ITV Studios. Rebecca Eaton is executive producer for WGBH, with David Suchet as associate producer.
