
Interview with Julius Green, Author of Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, A Life in the Theatre
All About Agatha Christie
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The Confusion of Agatha Christie's Plays
There's less confusion after after her death obviously but the confusion remains where those plays are concerned that were written during her career. All of the adaptations of Poirot stories remove Poirot from the proceedings among the plays that she wrote and again that's you know part of the confusion there are certainly other people who did put Poirot on the stage. She doesn't remove the role of the detective so right I mean what I suppose in Murder on the Nile hidden horizon she replaces the detective with Cam and Pennefah so there isn't a detective there. In the hollow there's an inspector so I'm not sure if this can be resolved or how it will all work out for
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