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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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Spider's Web (play)

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Moderator1 09 Dec 09 at 8:34 a.m. GMT

Clarissa has a corpse on her hands, her husband is on his way home with a foreign dignitary and the police are suspicious. Clarissa has got to hide the body, save her husband’s career and find the murderer!

This must surely be one of Christie's most fun plays.  Could it be considered in the realms of a farce?  It certainly needs to have quite a few doors in the set!  Margaret Lockwood was the original stage Clarissa but who would like to cast in the part now if you could have anyone?

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