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Radio Play, Melodrama  /  2w, 7m

A short radio play for live performance featuring Hercule Poirot.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 7m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

A distressed phone call from a mystery woman brings Hercule Poirot to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes, where a man commemorates the four-year anniversary of his wife’s sudden death – a death under very suspicious circumstances that Poirot himself witnessed. Gathered is everyone present on that fateful night and now Poirot must find a killer in the midst, before they strike again.  

Part of the live radio triple bill Murder in the Studio which also includes Butter in a Lordly Dish and Personal Call

Also a part of  A Poirot Double Bill which also includes The Wasp's Nest.

HERCULE POIROT
PAULINE WEATHERBY
SEÑORA LOLA VALDEZ
BARTON RUSSELL
ANTHONY CHAPPELL
STEPHEN CARTER
WAITER
CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT
COMPÉRE
  • Time Period 1930s
  • Setting The action takes place in restaurant of the hotel Jardin des Cygnes. 
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration 30 minutes

Media

ON BREAKING CHARACTER

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Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £40 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Agatha Christie

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 ...

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