Ottawa Little Theatre Presents BLACK COFFEE, Now thru 8/25

BLACK COFFEE by Agatha Christie and JASPER STATION by Norm Foster make up Ottawa Little Theatre's 2012 Summer Series beginning tonight, July 17, 2012.

BLACK COFFEE will surprise and delight Christie fans. The story concerns physicist Sir Claude Amory, who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb (the play was written in 1930!). A terrible thing happens to Sir Claude and Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the case. He does so after many wonderful twists and turns in true Christie tradition.

BLACK COFFEE is the first piece that Christie wrote for the stage, it launched a successful second career for her as a playwright. Twenty-two years after Christie's death, BLACK COFFEE was re-published in the United Kingdom and the United States in the form of a novel. 

Directed by Johni Keyworth BLACK COFFEE plays from tonight, July 17 -July 28, with a matinee on July 22.

Like so many of Norm Foster's plays, JASPER STATION is one of the most frequently produced Canadian scripts. Norm Foster has a gift of writing plays which audiences find funny, with characters they know. JASPER STATION is straightforward, clever, and funny...and a musical!

The story is elegantly simple. Five people show up at the train station in Jasper, each having different reasons for travelling. A kindly VIA rail clerk acts as host and shoulder to cry on, and a newspaper reporter attempts to gather all the narratives together into a small-town paper's human interest story.

JASPER STATION has music and lyrics by Steve Thomas and will be directed by Richard Elichuk. The season opens August 14 and runs through to August 25 with a matinee on August 19.

For ticketing and more information visit Ottawa Little Theatre online.