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SHOW PEOPLE: Then there was Agatha Christie

... Then there was Agatha Christie In his otherwise fair review of And Then There Were None at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Hugh Homan, no doubt inadvertent ly, transposed the characters played by Sarah Legg and Lyn O'Hara. Mr Homan also wonders ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 9 | Tags: letter 

'Old fart' defends Palace programme

... past 25 years, under the direction of Christopher Dunham, the Palace has presented a wide variety of plays, ranging from Agatha Christie to Mark Ravenhill, from Ray Cooney to David Mamet, which is surely the business of any theatre worthy of the name. I write ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 9 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: 'The Wilderness'

... authors find their way into the programmes of all good repertories) in the pro vinces, than to be in, say. a long run of an Agatha Christie play? There may be financial sacrifice as I am deeply conscious that reper tory companies cannot afford to pay actors ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Rumours of dramatic demise are exaggerated

... broadcast dramatisations of novels by DH Lawrence, Henry James, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Graham Greene, (Toilette and Agatha Christie. Though some drama slots on Radio 4 are shorter than formerly, there are more of them, thus provid ing greater opportunities ...

Published: Thursday 23 September 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 9 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: MORE CRITICISM OF THE CRITICS

... theatre we have given this city, this play has without doubt been the most popular and our selection has varied from Agatha Christie and J. Lee Thompson to Robert Monro (Sonnic Hale). These days, when well-written plays are hard to come by, ii would not ...

Published: Thursday 09 June 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 18 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of the Stage: SECOND TIME

... see a repeat of something they nave seen before nd, who knows, not necessarily enjoyed even if it happened to be ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 15 | Tags: letter 

Letters: And now the witness for the defence

... acclaimed as the world's most popular and successful playwright -- with the possible exception of William Shakespeare Agatha Christie. Two years ago we celebrated her centenary and wide, both the Oscar winning films ;ind plaudits, her plays and in partic ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: What the public wants

... if the weekly wage and theatre expense bill is to be met. It is yet another faot, that were we to present ANY play by Agatha Christie, we could be very sure indeed that the money for these things would be forthcoming. With all due respect, for I have never ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 582 | Page: 15 | Tags: letter 

Letters: PROUD RECORD OF WESTCLIFF PALACE THEATRE

... by James Pettifer about Bing Crosby), An Inspector Calls, Orphans, Amadeus, Master Harold and the Boys Yes, we also do Agatha Christie, Alan Ayckbourn and Ray Cooney and Pinter, Strindberg, Nichols and Godber. One further point: in Autumn 1989 Eastern Arts ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: ARE PLAYS WANTED A SECOND TIME?

... In Brighton we are beginning to have a surfeit of this custom. This week at the Theatre Royal, we have to put up with Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest for the second time within five months while in August, we have Anna Neagle in The More The ...

Published: Thursday 21 July 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 18 | Tags: letter 

Letters: She wasn't the first

... She wasn't the first SIR, Mr Charles Vance the producer (February 1) suggests that Dame Agatha Christie's greatness for him was epitomised by her injunction: 'Tell them absolutely everything. Don't keep anything from them my dear' etc. But this precept ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

LETTER BOX: Sad indictment of subsidised theatre

... book and let us see the provincial theatre flourish as never before while the West End sinks under the weight of its own Agatha Christies. Glyn Jones 162 Richmond Road, Hackney, London E8. ...

Published: Thursday 29 March 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 10 | Tags: letter