Archive: This review was first published on November 5, 2013 by the Daily Post
Agatha Christie's Go Back for Murder has had a chequered history, first emerging as a novel in 1942 entitled Murder in Retrospect, and later becoming more commonly known as Five Little Pigs.
The story originally featured Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as the sleuth, but she later adapted the novel for the stage as Go Back for Murder, editing out Poirot and replacing him with a young lawyer called Justin Fogg.
Act 1 of this Agatha Christie Theatre Company production is shamelessly pedestrian and formulaic. Carla Le Marchant (Sophie Ward) decides to investigate the murder of her father, for which his wife was jailed 16 years ago, when she receives a letter from her dying mother saying she was innocent of the crime.
It is then up to her, in association with Fogg (a likeable Ben Nealon), to work out whodunit based solely upon the faded testimonies of five prime suspects.
