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Christie's Plays

Agatha Christie wrote over a dozen plays, the most famous of which is The Mousetrap - the longest running play in the world. Here you can discuss each play in detail.

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A Daughter's a Daughter

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ChristieCommuter 11 Dec 09 at 4:45 p.m. GMT

Set between November 1945 and early 1949, A Daughter's a Daughter is quite different from any of Christie's previous work for the stage. It does not rely on intrigue or detective work and sits much closer to the writings of Somerset Maugham or Terrence Rattigan than the style ususally associated with the Queen of Crime. It is, in many respects, a far more personal play than anything else Christie wrote, as it sets out to explore how resentment, jealousy and selfishness can corrode even the strongest of family bonds. First performed in 1956 at the Theatre Royal in Bath, its most recent outing was at the Theatre Royal Windsor in November 2009.

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Number3 12 Sep 10 at 1:40 p.m. GMT

I wonder where the company got a copy of the script.  I thought it was unpublished, but I could be wrong.

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ChristieCommuter 11 Dec 09 at 4:53 p.m. GMT

This play opens at Trafalgar Studios in London's West End on Monday 14th December - starring Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks as part of a fab cast. If you didn't see it at Windsor - go - it's only running for a month so if you want to see it click here

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