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Interview with Julius Green, Author of Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, A Life in the Theatre

All About Agatha Christie

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The Mouse Trap Isn't Necessarily Christie's Best Play

Despite its enduring popularity the mouse trap isn't necessarily her best play. witness for the prosecution is one of her best plays if not her very best you call that one her dramatic masterpiece but I'm curious among the nearly 30 other plays she wrote. say well I don't think that it's a secret among Christie aficionados that despite its enduring popularity the mouse trap isn’t necessarily her best work as a playwright. There were none because she read an ending when it was presented in the second world war that that changed the book and made it more accessible to wartime theater goers.

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