Curtain Up [electronic resource] : Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre
Green, Julius2015
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A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world's most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books and her many film and TV adaptations. Less well-known today is her extraordinary repertoire of stage plays that firmly established her as the most successful female dramatist of all time. Now Julius Green raises the curtain on Agatha Christie's towering contribution to popular theatre, from her first serious attempts at playwriting – in a very different style to the whodunits for which she became famous – to her record-breaking achievements in the West End and her conquest of Broadway. Astonishing revelations about this often disregarded side of her life are illustrated with extracts from hitherto unknown plays, deleted scenes from her theatrical classics, and unpublished private letters, including her extensive correspondence with the legendary 'Mousetrap Man', theatrical impresario Sir Peter Saunders. Meticulously researched and full of groundbreaking discoveries, this book adds a fascinating new layer to Agatha Christie's remarkable story.
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Green, Julius, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Julius Green has numerous West End plays and musicals to his credit as a theatre producer. In 2001 he created the Agatha Christie Theatre Company and is a Fellow of the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London. A regular columnist for The Stage newspaper, he was invited by HarperCollins to write the introduction to a new edition of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and Other Plays celebrating The Mousetrap's 60th anniversary in 2012. He lives in Cambridge.
ISBN:
9780007546954
Language:
English
BRN:
2900591
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