... Who Killed Agatha Christie? CREWE NOT FOR years have the thea tregoers of the Crewe area had the opportunity of seeing so good a thriller as Tudor Gates' Who Killed Agatha' Christie. And not for a longer period than that have they seen one presented ...

... The Unexpected Guest YORK THE AGATHA CHRISTIE mystery. The Unexpected Guest, starts with fine visual impact-- and then subsides into rumination. i nis play was last seen in York in 1969. and now it has been given a new production by the York Theatre ...

... Murder On The Nile WORCESTER I MAY be wrong, but it seems to me that this vintage Agatha Christie thriller (originally called Hidden Horizon in 1945 and given its present name the next year) is not particularly thrilling, though it does provide opp ...

... Bird is the type of play which goes down well at Harrogate Theatre. For years light but saucy comedies have vied with Agatha Christie thrillers to be the stalwarts of the theatre's season. This story of the attractive middle-aged housewife who tries to ...

... it might not have been so agreeable. But whodun nits are far less frequent in the theatre nowadays, and this one is by Agatha Christie, who knows her job to a hair. True, the first act worried me. It was clear enough that the too-amorous doctor would be ...

... early in this zany musical spoof of the British whodunnit at Northampton's Royal Theatre. Nearly every cliche devised Dy Agatha Christie and her rivals finds its way into the plot. An odd assortment of guests arrive at a country estate on an island in the ...

... THE MOUSETRAP, by Agatha Christie Ambassadors Theatre Opened 25 1 1 52 Tickets: choice of all prices 15 minutes before curtain (matinee perf.) Actors, it is said, kneel on the pavement and pray for the return of the Ambassadors into general currency. ...

... only writer of genius. One of the qualities of genius is that it demands co-operation; you can lose your place in an Agatha Christie and it doesn't matter, but Mr. Golding's books, The Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors and now Pincher Martin are not just ...

... Too Tangled A Web Anthony Cookman MRS. AGATHA CHRISTIE opens Spider's Web at the Savoy with a pleasing little scene of polite comedy. Two old gentlemen, each setting himself up as an infallible judge of port, are going blind fold through the solemn ritual ...

... to keep the audience on tenterhooks without lapsing into the type of farcical playacting which is the fate of so many Agatha Christie mysteries. They carry the spine- chilling tale through to its climax with a sustained tension and dramatic sus pense. ...

... A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED. By Agatha Christie. (Collins 8s. 6 d.) YES, it 's a vintage Christie. Yes, the mur derer's identity remains unguessable to the end. Yes, there are clues and hints which make the reader curse his own stupidity in not perceiving who ...

... Tin Mousclrap (Ambassadors) Criticus* BEFORE I went to this new murder mystery by Mrs. Agatha Christie, a remarkably intelligent and beautiful Agatha Christie fan gave me a good deal of rather formidable advice. You want to be able to spot the criminal ...