Name: Towards Zero
Start: 2024-08-02T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-08-02T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Theatre Denton Annex - 2201 S I-35 Denton

Directors – Vanessa Welch & Ash Robbins
Performances on the Gallivan Stage at Theatre Denton's Annex inside the Golden Triangle Mall.
When a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his former wife Audrey and his new flame, Kay. A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder. The play is a layered drama of piercing intelligence that forces the audience to guess who will be murdered before they can even begin to untangle who did it.
This version of Towards Zero is the only play written by Agatha Christie under commission (to the Shuberts of New York). It only ran for one week in Martha's Vineyard in 1945. It was lost to time until rediscovered by Julius Green in 2015 as part of his research for the history of Christie's life. While the second version of the play (cowritten with Gerald Verner in 1951) is exceedingly more popular, Christie’s original is a far more ambitious and dramatic piece of writing.
Christie’s script follows her formula of plotting with a surprise outcome, but she paid special attention to characterization and motivation. Not only staged outdoors, the show delves deep into the psyche of its characters exploring thematically the notions of mortality, suicide, depression and even redemption.