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The Hollow
A sparkling new production of The Hollow premiered at the Theatre Royal Windsor on January 11th, 2006. This is the first of a series of high quality revivals of the original Christie plays from The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, an exciting new partnership between Agatha Christie Ltd and Bill Kenwright Ltd set to tour the UK's regional theatres!
"a top notch production prepared by people who clearly understand and love her work"
This witty and devious thriller has an all-star cast including British stage and screen icon, Kate O'Mara (Joan Collins' manipulative sister in Dynasty and recently seen in Bad Girls) alongside her Howard’s Way co-star Tracey Childs (currently starring in Born And Bred) and celebrated stage actor, Tony Britton. They are joined by Gary Mavers (Peak Practice, Casualty), Coronation Street favourite Chloe Newsome (Vicky McDonald), Heartbeat’s Fiona Dolman and Ben Nealon from Soldier, Soldier.
The Hollow is directed by Joe Harmston, whose West End credits include The Birthday Party (starring Timothy West and Prunella Scales) and The Collection & The Lover at the Donmar (by and starring Harold Pinter), and who has also directed sell-out national tours of The Blue Room, The Kingfisher and Relative Values. Set design is by Simon Scullion with lighting design by Matt Drury.
THE PLOT: As a group of friends gather for a weekend break in the country, Jon Cristow finds himself trapped between his wife, mistress and a vengeful ex-mistress. Soon somebody is dead.
History of The Hollow by John Curran, Editor of the Agatha Christie Newsletter: Agatha Christie's Autobiography recalls "It came to me suddenly one day that The Hollow would make a good play". She was proved right when the very first performance opened at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge on February 5th, 1951. It moved swiftly to the Fortune Theatre for a few months and then transferred to The Ambassadors Theatre in the West End where it ran for almost a year. Dame Agatha missed the West End premiere as she was actually in Iraq when the curtain went up on St. Agatha's Day but the critics gave her the sort of reviews every dramatist dreams of:
"fascinating and intriguing sleight-of-hand", "one of the best play-puzzles London has seen for years"
The play marked the beginning of an extraordinary professional partnership with producer Peter Saunders. He went on to produce 10 more of her plays and nursed The Mousetrap to its record-breaking (and on-going) success. It was a friendship that would last until her death. Christie went on to create such theatrical classics as The Unexpected Guest, Spider's Web and Witness For The Prosecution and you can look forward to seeing some of these masterpieces revived on the UK National stage in the next few years under the umbrella of The Agatha Christie Theatre Company!
Excerpts from John Curran’s Review
Make sure to catch this production if it visits a theatre near you in the coming year!
While in many ways a conventional murder mystery this production introduces several innovations into the normal staging…
The setting, the garden room of a country house, is like many another Christie stage set but with one crucial difference… here the room is skewed and slanted to reflect the tangle of relationships that play out before us and lead, ultimately, to murder and to destroy (perhaps forever?) the idyll of country house weekends…
Lady Lucy (Kate O’Meara) gets laughs in all the right places and breaks the tension admirably when called upon. Simon Linnell (Edward) and Chloe Newsome (Midge) are a particularly strong couple, whether acting as suspected murderers or as star-crossed lovers (or possibly both); they keep us wondering in either case...
 Fonte - http://uk.agathachristie.com/site/about_christie/christie_on_stage/whats_on_stage.php
Ficha Técnica - http://www.kenwright.com/index.php?page=shows&id=65#T01678401577
Enviado à mailing por Luky em 04-02-2006
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