{"id":349075,"date":"2025-08-16T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349075\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:02:11","slug":"glynis-barber-and-bob-barrett-to-join-mark-hadfield-on-stage-in-agatha-christies-death-on-the-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349075\/","title":{"rendered":"Glynis Barber and Bob Barrett to join Mark Hadfield on stage in Agatha Christie\u2019s Death On The Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img width=\"770\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/54722086716_4c0b9d9b15_o-1024x639.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Glynis Barber and Bob Barrett announced to star in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile in Salford next month alongside Mark Hadfield\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-attachment-id=\"237396\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/salford-now-1.azurewebsites.net\/2025\/08\/16\/glynis-barber-and-bob-barrett-to-join-mark-hadfield-on-stage-in-agatha-christies-death-on-the-nile\/54722086716_4c0b9d9b15_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/54722086716_4c0b9d9b15_o-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1597\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"54722086716_4c0b9d9b15_o\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Glynis Barber and Bob Barrett announced to star in Agatha Christie\u2019s Death on the Nile in Salford next month alongside Mark Hadfield&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Glynis Barber and Bob Barrett announced to star in Agatha Christie\u2019s Death on the Nile in Salford next month alongside Mark Hadfield&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/54722086716_4c0b9d9b15_o-300x187.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/54722086716_4c0b9d9b15_o-1024x639.jpg\"\/>    \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glynis Barber and Bob Barrett will join Mark Hadfield on the stage at the Lowry as Agatha Christie\u2019s Death On The Nile comes to Salford.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agatha Christie\u2019s famous Belgian detective will visit the Lowry during its UK and Ireland Tour from Friday 26 September till Satuday 4 Ocotober 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The show, Death On The Nile, will\u00a0reunite writer Ken Ludwig,\u00a0director\u00a0Lucy Bailey and producers\u00a0Fiery Angel\u00a0in association with\u00a0Agatha Christie Limited\u00a0for the European premiere of a new adaptation of the globally celebrated Agatha Christie story on a nationwide tour.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry audiences will be able to watch the performance, on board a luxurious cruise under the heat of the Egyptian sun, when a couple\u2019s idyllic honeymoon is cut short by a brutal murder.<\/p>\n<p>As secrets that have been buried in the sands of time finally resurface, can the world-famous detective, Hercule Poirot, untangle the web of lies and solve another crime?<\/p>\n<p>For the famous Whodunit, Mark Hadfield as the Belgian detective, Hercules Poirot, he will be joined on stage by Glynis Barber as\u00a0Salome Otterbourne\u00a0and\u00a0Bob Barrett\u00a0as Poirot\u2019s trusted friend, Colonel Race.<\/p>\n<p>Glynis Barber became a household name when she starred opposite Michael Brandon in the TV series\u00a0Dempsey and Makepeace.<\/p>\n<p>More recent TV credits include series regulars Norma Crow in\u00a0Hollyoaks, Gertrusha in NBC\u2019s\u00a0The Outpost\u00a0and Glenda Mitchell in\u00a0EastEnders.<\/p>\n<p>And her previous brushes with Agatha Christie were when she starred as Cora van Stuyvesant in\u00a0Agatha Christie\u2019s Marple: Endless Night\u00a0and as Lola Brewster in\u00a0Agatha Christie\u2019s Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack\u2019d from Side to Side.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the performances at the Lowry, Glynis Barber said: \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to be returning to the stage and working with the brilliant team at Fiery Angel and director Lucy Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis iconic play from Agatha Christie\u2019s phenomenal body of work keeps audiences on the edge of their seat and I can\u2019t wait to be part of a cast that will bring this gripping drama to theatres all over the UK and Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She will be joined on stage by Bob Barrett, who is best known as Sacha Levy in the long-running Holby City, a role he played from 2010 to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>On film, he played George Bryan in John Madden\u2019s Shakespeare in Love, and most recently appeared in the UK &amp; Ireland Tour of Agatha Christie\u2019s Murder on the Orient Express and the UK Tour of Agatha Christie\u2019s And Then There Were None, both directed by Lucy Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing his run in Agatha Christie stage performances,\u00a0Bob Barrett said: \u201cTo have the chance of being in one Agatha Christie tour, getting to work with the incomparable team of Lucy Bailey and Fiery Angel, was special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get to be in three is a great privilege I shall never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The performance of Agatha Christie\u2019s Death On The Nile will take to Lowry stage on Friday 26 September until Saturday 4 October.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the show will start from \u00a321 \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/thelowry.com\/whats-on\/agatha-christie-s-death-on-the-nile-q4jt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> with availabilty and further information being found here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glynis Barber and Bob Barrett will join Mark Hadfield on the stage at the Lowry as Agatha Christie\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[99272,748,123534,393,4884,18525,62385,2465,1290,30580,46899,123535,2764,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-agatha-christie","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-death-on-the-nile","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-lowry","14":"tag-lowry-theatre","15":"tag-manchester","16":"tag-salford","17":"tag-salford-quays","18":"tag-the-lowry","19":"tag-the-lowry-theatre","20":"tag-theatre","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038345431071630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}