Agatha Christie’s
mysterious disappearance depicted in
new one woman play
Where is Mrs
Christie? At Waterside on Tue 28 Sep
Agatha Christie was one of the
greatest thriller writers of all time and certainly the most prolific. In 1926,
she was at the centre of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction, a
series of events which sparked one of the biggest and most extensive police
hunts in history. Her crashed car was discovered in Surrey and the famous
author was missing, presumed dead by many, for eleven days. However, she was
eventually found at a luxury hotel in Harrogate. She claimed then, and for the
rest of the life, that she was suffering from amnesia and remembered nothing.
Neither the press nor the police believed her.
Actor Liz Grand (previous
one-woman show The Second Best Bed)
presents her new onewoman show Where Is Mrs Christie? Did Agatha
Christie lie, and if so why? Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a publicity
stunt? Or was there a darker secret involved in this disappearance which was to
affect her for the rest of her life? The
answer to all these questions will, as in all good thrillers, be revealed!
“Liz Grand's
performance in the title role is compelling. So persuasive is she that we the
audience become co-conspirators. Her Mrs. Christie is irresistibly engaging,
vulnerable, confiding and ultimately indomitable in her strength of spirit. It
is a master-class in nuanced delivery and dramatic timing, deliberately
tantalising, directed unfussily and designed for spot-on period fidelity.” The Stage
Where is Mrs Christie? is
performed by Liz Grand and written and directed by Chris Jaeger. It comes to Waterside, Sale on Tuesday 28
September at 7.30pm.
watersidearts.org/mrschristie
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