¹ NOTE:
The name of this play (and original novel) and all language contained therein
reflected common usage when it was written (1939). It was renamed in 1985 and is now known as
"And Then There were None". All derogatory references have been subsequently changed to
'Soldier' in modern reprints.
This play was presented in conjunction with Gillingham Borough Council's Arts Festival
and was our entry into the Kent Full Length Drama Festival (adjudicated by Mr C. Swindells).
Our thanks to Huntley & Palmers for supplying biscuits and the Ritz Hotel London for supplying the note paper.
A group of ten people gather at the mansion on Soldier Island, just off the coast of Devon. They are invited
under a variety of pretenses: for employment, for a detective case, or just for a good time. Before the party
truly gets under way, a recording plays that accuses each guest of murder. Baffled, these strangers realize
that they have no idea who their host is and, when the first guest is murdered, they understand that they have
been brought to the island by a maniac who intends to dispense his own perverted form of justice in accordance
with the lines of a sinister (updated) nursery rhyme: