Calgary to see long-lost Christie play

News Out Of Calgary says the discovery of a tattered copy of a lost play by Agatha Christie in a pile of unsolicited scripts is giving a Calgary theatre the rare opportunity of hosting a world premiere of a work by the world’s best-selling mystery writer.


Next month, Mathew Prichard, Ms. Christie’s only grandchild, will travel from England to Calgary for a seat of honour at the Vertigo Mystery Theatre for the debut of Chimneys, a play never published, never performed and so rare that even Ms. Christie’s heirs and the managers of her estate had not seen a copy.

September 4, 2003 by Uncategorized 3

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  1. Anna says:
    September 4, 2003 at 4:50 pm

    The Secret of the Chimneys
    She wrote The Secret of the Chimneys in 1925 — I wonder if this play is an adaptation of that book? The article doesn’t give any hints to the plot of the play, which is too bad, since I am unlikely to ever be able to go to Calgary to see it.

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  2. Anonymous Patron says:
    September 5, 2003 at 11:22 pm

    I’m taking it…
    That you believe that it will never be performed, or available except there?

    If it is her play, then her heirs have copyright, and mosr likely the play will be available elsewhere. The original will not be, however.

    — Ender, Duke_of_URL
    H?

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  3. Anna says:
    September 6, 2003 at 10:02 am

    Re:I’m taking it…
    I dunno – maybe it will be performed in other places. There isn’t a high demand for mystery plays, though. At least, not in my part of the world.

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