Chichester - great delight in heading back to the Festival Theatre for Poirot

And it’s also the era in which Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express is set.Playing Helen Hubbard, she joins Henry Goodman’s Poirot in a stage adaptation by Ken Ludwig on the main-house stage at Chichester Festival Theatre (May 13-June 4).

“It’s a very exciting prospect for the audience I hope but also for us as well. It really does feel that this is exactly what the doctor ordered. It is a dose of glamour and fun and mystery and the adaptation that Ken has written is very pacey and very pithy and very funny. You don’t necessarily think of it being funny but because he has written a lot of musicals and comedies, you have got that energy. It is not dry and dusty. He has spiced it up a bit and the characters are juicier. The characters are larger than life. And I had a costume fitting yesterday and I am ridiculously excited about the dress that I’m going to be wearing. The 1930s are my favourite period. They were just so glamorous and remind me of all the desperately glamorous movies that I grew up watching on rainy Sunday afternoons on BBC2! And we’ve also got a very clever staging.”