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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 10m
Agatha Christie
This three-act Poirot thriller – a superbly crafted whodunit with endless red herrings, subplots of infamous spies and an astonishingly prophetic storyline about weapons created through “bombarding the atom” – is one of Christie’s most gripping country house murder mysteries.
Accomplished physicist Sir Claud Amory has constructed a workable formula for one of the most deadly weapons known to man: the atom bomb. After the formula is mysteriously stolen and Sir Claud is callously murdered, Hercule Poirot arrives to solve the mystery with the help of Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp.
A superbly crafted whodunit with endless red herrings, subplots of infamous spies and an astonishingly prophetic storyline about weapons created through “bombarding the atom”, Black Coffee is one of Christie’s most gripping country house murder mysteries.
Black Coffee premiered at the Embassy Theatre in London in December 1930.
“It’s exactly as Agatha Christie – and Poirot – should be.” – The Guardian
“A tasty confection… delivers at least as many laughs as thrills.” – Stage Scene LA
“Black Coffee is hot… Christie knew how to craft a good mystery.” – The Topeka Capital-Journal
“It’s exactly as Agatha Christie – and Poirot – should be. I'm totally in the dark, in every way, but having fun.” – The Guardian
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
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Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and, in many languages, outsold only by the Bible and Shake ...
by Agatha Christie
by Rob Urbinati
Rob Urbinati