![]() ![]() It is a reminder that Christie pioneered cosy crime before the term was even invented, creating a well-bred world at least one step removed from anything most of her readers would identify with.īarbara Wilshere and Sarah Thomas. This is Marple for people who grew up with Joan Hickson, rather than anyone who’s first encounter with Christie has been recent adaptations of her work. The big questions are: who will die and who will turn out to be the murderer?ĭirector Michael Lunny knows the format and plays a straight bat with his handling of Leslie Darbon’s adaptation. ![]() That there will be at least one death, alongside numerous red herrings, or that Miss Marple (Sarah Thomas) will solve the murder and succeed where Inspector Craddock (Tom Butcher) fails is never really in doubt, even without the opening premise of the play – that an advert has been placed in the local paper giving the date and time of a murder. The plot centres around Letitia Blackstock (Barbara Wilshere) a woman who has recently returned from Switzerland to the sleepy village of Chipping Cleghorn and appears to be independently wealthy. Karen Drury (Seated) with Barbara Wilshere, Dot Smith, Sarah Thomas, and Tom Gibbons. ![]()
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