{"id":42841,"date":"2015-08-24T00:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T04:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42841"},"modified":"2015-08-24T00:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T04:39:01","slug":"five-full-length-plays-and-five-one-act-dramas-written-by-agatha-christie-discovered-in-archives-containing-authors-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42841","title":{"rendered":"Five Full Length Plays and Five One Act Dramas Written by Agatha Christie  Discovered in Archives Containing Authors Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nTen works by English crime novelist Agatha Christie, including five full-length plays and five one-act dramas, have been unearthed by a British theatre producer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julius Green, a Christie expert who has produced more than 250 plays and musicals, found five full-length plays and five one-act dramas written by the creator of the fictional Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, while scouring the archives containing her papers.<\/p>\n<p>Some are previously unknown and the others are long forgotten. The material lay in several archives, including those of Christie\u2019s family and her theatrical producers, to which Mr. Green was given unprecedented access.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plays will feature in Mr. Green\u2019s book Curtain Up: Agatha Christie \u2014 A Life in Theatre, to be published next month ahead of her 125th birth anniversary. They include adaptations of Towards Zero, her 1944 novel, and The Stranger, a thriller about a woman who discovers her husband is a serial killer. The others are The Clutching Hand, showing the investigation of a series of murders by Craig Kennedy, a detective created by the American writer Arthur B. Reeve, and Someone at the Window, inspired by a short story of Christie\u2019s called The Dead Harlequin, The Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Until now nothing has been known about Someone at the Window, apart from its title. Believed to date from 1934, it is \u201cbrimming with witty banter and social commentary about inter-war Britain,\u201d Mr. Green said.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a three-act domestic drama called The Lie, which is about infidelity, and was written during the failure of Christie\u2019s marriage to her adulterous first husband Archie Christie.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Green found the script for Towards Zero in the archives of the Shubert Organisation, the oldest theatrical production company in America. The 1945 work is \u201centirely different\u201d from Gerald Verner\u2019s stage adaptation 11 years later.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was \u201chuge potential\u201d to bring some of the \u201cnew\u201d plays to audiences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton42841\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D42841&amp;text=Five%20Full%20Length%20Plays%20and%20Five%20One%20Act%20Dramas%20Written%20by%20Agatha%20Christie%20%20Discovered%20in%20Archives%20Containing...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten works by English crime novelist Agatha Christie, including five full-length plays and five one-act dramas, have been unearthed by a British theatre producer. 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