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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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The Hollow (play)

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Moderator1 21 Sep 09 at 8:59 a.m. GMT

When members of the Angkatell family gather in the country for the weekend they certainly don’t expect one of their other guests, John Cristow to be shot dead – and absolutely not by his devoted wife Gerda. Well, most people assume it must have been Gerda as she was found with the gun in her hand. But John, with his dying breath, said Henrietta’s name twice. And what is Veronica Craye, John’s old flame, doing in the neighbourhood?

Christie adapted her novel fairly faithfully for this tangled web of a play but, as with several of her plays, Poirot has been removed and replaced with police from Scotland Yard. Does this make the play better or worse? Christie thought that Poirot would dominate the stage too much but aren’t there enough strong characters in this play to allow for a part for him too?

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