Tsurutaro Kataoka & Hiroki Suzuki Co-Star! Rehearsal Room Report for Stage Play 'Black Coffee' Arrives!! "Poirot will be my masterpiece"
A press rehearsal report for the Agatha Christie mystery play 'Black Coffee' was released. Co-stars Tsurutaro Kataoka (playing Poirot) and Hiroki Suzuki, along with other cast members, shared their enthusiasm for the dialogue-heavy production.
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"Black Coffee", a mystery play written by Agatha Christie as her first stage play, is the only theatrical script handwritten by Christie in which the famous detective Hercule Poirot appears. A rehearsal room press interview for this work, co-starring Tsurutaro Kataoka and Hiroki Suzuki, was held on Monday, March 30, 2026. Kataoka, Suzuki, Hironori Araki, Yuki Tamaki, Ema Amahana, Masaki Nakao, Kaname Ouki, and director Minoru Nosaka took the stage. We have received a report from the rehearsal room interview!
Set in a British mansion in the 1930s, this work is a masterpiece of black mystery in which the death of a renowned scientist and the theft of confidential information are complexly intertwined. At the interview on this day, the opening scene of Act 3 was revealed. Sir Claud Amory, a scientist who developed an equation for a new type of explosive, has his equation stolen and is murdered by someone. Who is the culprit that stole the equation? Who killed Sir Claud? The unraveling of that mystery begins in this Act 3. As characters appear one after another and act hurriedly, suspicious individuals begin to emerge.
A play with meticulously laid foreshadowing requires an enormous amount of dialogue and calculated acting. Kataoka, playing the role of Poirot in particular, said, "Since the rehearsal period this time was about a month and a half, I thought I would never make it if I rehearsed while holding the script..."
Set in a British mansion in the 1930s, this work is a masterpiece of black mystery in which the death of a renowned scientist and the theft of confidential information are complexly intertwined. At the interview on this day, the opening scene of Act 3 was revealed. Sir Claud Amory, a scientist who developed an equation for a new type of explosive, has his equation stolen and is murdered by someone. Who is the culprit that stole the equation? Who killed Sir Claud? The unraveling of that mystery begins in this Act 3. As characters appear one after another and act hurriedly, suspicious individuals begin to emerge.
A play with meticulously laid foreshadowing requires an enormous amount of dialogue and calculated acting. Kataoka, playing the role of Poirot in particular, said, "Since the rehearsal period this time was about a month and a half, I thought I would never make it if I rehearsed while holding the script..."