... WHO KILLED 'AGATHA' CHRISTIE AT THE AMBASSADORS Peter Hepple reviews Opened October 18 TUDOR GATES makes no effort to get on the right side of drama critics in his play Who Killed 'Agatha' Christie. Not only does he appear to be blaming them for reducing ...

... Ten Little Indians WESTGLIFF SERIOUS OR send-up, that is the question. Agatha Christie thrillers appear to have taken on the mantle of pantomime for grown-ups and it's not always easy to detect whether it is intentional or not. Then the murderer must ...

... Is Announced GUILDFORD IF YOU LIKE Agatha Christie, you will love A Murder is Announced, which has opened a national tour at the Yvonne Arnaud and is adapted for the stage by Leslie Darbon from an Agatha Christie novel. As usual in such two-dimensional ...

... Towards Zero PERTH DAME Agatha Christie rules supreme at Perth Theatre in the notoriously difficult spot immediately following pantomime, when cash is short and the nights are bleak. Perth Theatre director Joan Knight has long discovered the unique pulling ...

... KING'S HAMMER SMITH On Monday Carl Bernard in cluded the Agatha Christie thriller. Ten Little Niggers. in his season of Dlays at the King's. Hammersmith. Sonia Holm is the guest-artist, playing the part of Vera Clavthorn. with a brilliant sense of c ...

... REAL LIFE DEFEATS THE THRILLER QUEEN AGATHA CHRISTIE, queen of the thriller writers, apparently attempted in Verdict, at the Strand, to write a play about real life and living people. Having for the time abandoned her murder puzzles, cardboard characters ...

... THE Q Tho clever and successful play, 44 Love from a Stranger, by the late Frank Bosj.er, from a story by Agatha Christie, is presented at lvew. The play is well acted and produced. The important part* of Cocily Harrington and Bruce liovell are played ...

... Murder On The Nile BROMLEY TWO PLAYWRIGHTS always draw big audiences Agatha Christie and Alan Ayckbouru. It was no surprise, therefore, to see an almost full house at the Churchill on opening night with Tt-rlWtn bookings for the remainder of the run of ...

... Margaret Lockwood's Return AS always. Agatha Christie emerges the victor in her new play, The Spider's Web. She does it by making her main character an awful fibber. PJay by Agatha Christie, pre sented by Peter Saunders at the Royal, Nottingham, on ...

... be manipulated by the author and gradually unravelled. The play coasts from beginning to end, totally believable a la Agatha Christie with the actors almost flawlessly delineating her finely drawn, two-and-a-half dimensional rharartpr^ Charles Hickman ...

... The Unexpected Guest VIENNA AGATHA CHRISTIE'S The Unex pected Guest is drawing full houses to Vienna's English Theatre. Not just because it's Agatha Christie and there fore a sure thing, but also because Anna Barry's direction, although not excit ing ...

... which has moved to Broadway's Longacrc Theatre from the off-Broadway Circle Rep, is best de scribed as a burlesque of Agatha Christie. David Potts' set presents us with a panelled library in a country house, which turns out to be full of secret passages ...