Imagine Hercule Poirot poking around Pittsburgh.
In Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new production, he does just that. The legendary literary sleuth Poirot is reincarnated to solve a Steel City murder.
“North of Forbes,” a new commission by local playwright Tammy Ryan, is based on Agatha Christie’s first novel. It will stream from 7 p.m. Thursday through 10 p.m. Sunday as part of PPT’s Public PlayTime benefit series, “Classics N’at.”
Benton Greene portrays Poirot.
Christie’s 1920 tale, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” is set during World War I, where Poirot a Belgian war refugee is called upon to investigate the suspicious death of an older woman in her English countryside estate.