And Then There Were None Play Version
The play form of And Then There Were None differs greatly from the novel. As the book is near-perfect, the play does its best to include many ideas not found in the book, giving it value separate from the famous publication. The best example of this is that the play opens from the perspective of Mr and Mrs Rogers, then jumps to a narrative point slightly before the book's normal start. This leads to a new angle that deepens our understanding of their nature, where, in the book, they are simply throw-away characters.
When adapting a play, many elements must be omitted to account for time constraints. The choice of removed elements is especially interesting in this play's case, as though many morbid lines were cut, comedic lines were added, drastically shifting the atmosphere on account of the new, more balanced rationing.
The ending differs from the text in a discordant way. If you read my Article on And Then There Were None, then you know that the unresolved elements of the mystery are what make it such a figurehead of the genre; it remains mysterious even after the read. Instead of leaving the mystery unsolved, the new mystery is why the new solution is given instead of the old ambiguity, and it also leaves the audience wondering whether the final sequence happened through the hallucinatory eyes of a character.
The Chase Verdict is that the play adaptation of And Then There Were None is an excellent script read, but only for the purpose of enriching the main novel. Without having read the novel, the script shall not be nearly as satisfying, and you will be spoiling the original article.