Curtain Up (83 page)

Ten Little Niggers
(novel
aka
:
And Then There Were None
) 154, 157–8, 180, 185, 194

Ten Little Niggers
(aka
Ten Little Indians/And Then There Were None
)
8, 157–81, 191–3, 283, 292, 304, 306, 546, 563; AC attends dress rehearsal 169, 170; AC on 159–60, 164–5, 167–8, 169, 170, 176, 192–3, 248; birth of 158–9; Broadway production of
see
Ten Little Indians (Broadway production of
Ten Little Niggers
); cast 164, 168, 176, 210, 236, 304, 420; directors 166–8, 170; film rights 184, 186, 209, 390; finances 161–5, 169, 170–4, 179, 215, 247; international productions of 191; origins/novel and 157–8, 161, 165, 166, 180–1, 184, 185; PES and 170–4, 181, 215; plot, themes and characters 8, 158, 164–5, 176–7, 180, 200, 211, 221, 306, 395, 426, 452, 470, 473, 480, 484, 485, 528, 558; post-West End tour 210; producers 161–8; repertory productions of 191–2; reviews 175–6; revival, West End, 1962 517–19, 520, 525; rights/licences 163, 166, 181–8, 191–2, 209, 219, 390; scheduling 169; scripts 19, 158–61, 164–5, 176–7, 195, 200, 207, 210; Second World War and 160, 177–81, 191, 192; success of 179–80,
192–3, 194, 204, 207, 240, 244; title 6, 157–8, 185–7, 551; touring productions 195, 231, 241–2; Toy and 161–5, 169, 170; as turning point in AC's playwriting career 192–3; TV version of 406; West End opening and run 174–5, 190–1, 195, 206, 246; Wimbledon opening 169–70, 213, 216

Ten Years
50–1, 53, 71, 561

They Do It with Mirrors
12, 310

Three Act Tragedy
239

Three Blind Mice
(radio play) 303–4, 564

‘Three Blind Mice' (short story) 303–4, 334

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
(collection) 304, 317, 564

Towards Zero
(novel) 194, 209, 416, 567

Towards Zero
194, 208–9, 218–27; cast 223–4; directors 223–4, 236; failure of 194, 329, 377; film rights 209; Harris script doctoring 219–20, 223, 224–5; origins/novel and 194, 208–9; plot and themes 7, 199, 201, 221–3, 237; reviews 224; rights/licences/royalties 209, 218–19, 227, 233–4; script 209, 218–23, 224–6, 234, 247; Shuberts and 208–9, 218–21, 223, 225–6, 227, 234, 292–3; sketch of scene setting (possibly by Frank Clark) 225; title 209, 219; ‘try-out' production in US (world premiere), Martha's Vineyard Playhouse 221, 223–6, 236, 301, 303, 439

Towards Zero
(adapted by Gerald Verner – with nominal assistance from AC – from
Towards Zero
) 417–28, 567; AC attends rehearsals 428, 440; AC lends name to 209; AC on 418, 421, 425, 546; AC's contribution to script 424–6, 428; AC's royalties from 417, 425, 426; cast 424–5; continued performance of 557; critics and impression of AC's authorship 426–7; differences between AC's original stage version and 223, 426; directors 421–4, 459; finances 428; marketing 426–8; Meyer and 359, 417–18, 421–2; reviews 427, 439, 442, 478; rights/licences 349, 417–18, 421–3, 426, 428; Saunders and 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 428; script 416–17, 418, 424–6, 428; set 223, 225; touring productions 428; Verner assigns rights to AC 422–3, 426; Verner background and 419–20; West End run 423–8, 466, 473

‘Traitor Hands' 334

Triangle at Rhodes
196, 239

Unexpected Guest, The
467–83, 557, 565; AC on 468, 469, 472, 476; Bristol Hippodrome opening 467, 475–6; cast 467, 474–5, 480, 481–3, 495; design 467, 475–6; director 17, 467, 468, 469, 472–3, 474, 475–6, 477; finances 468; international productions 483; marketing 478; origins and development of 469–70, 471; plot, themes and characters 468, 469–74, 475–6, 489, 500, 510; Queen visits
479–80; restoration of AC's reputation as playwright and 489–90; reviews 468, 477–8, 482; Saunders and 467, 468, 473, 474, 475, 477, 479, 481; speed of production process 468–9; success of 467, 476–9, 489–90, 494, 495, 510; US production 480–2; West End opening and run 467, 476–7, 483; writing of/script 467, 468–74

Unfinished Portrait
(Westmacott) 138, 147, 436, 448

Verdict
(previously:
No Fields of Amaranth
)
451–66, 467, 483, 497, 498, 565; AC on failure of 465–6, 468, 546; cast 456–7, 459; closes 467; director 457; ending 452–3, 458–9, 460, 461; finances 464–5, 493, 494; lack of success 452, 463–4, 467, 468, 475, 477–8, 479, 489, 493, 494, 546, 557; Max Mallowan and 448–51; origins and development of 445–51; plots and themes 7, 8, 446–55, 462–3, 469, 509, 558; pre-West End tour 457–8; reviews 457–9, 460–2, 463–4, 474, 492; Saunders and 445, 446, 447, 451–2, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 462–3, 464, 465, 466, 467; scheduling 457; script 449, 452–3, 458–9, 460, 509; title 445, 450, 451–2, 466; West End opening and run 459–61; Westmacott play, as a 462–3

‘War Bride, The' 50

‘Wasp's Nest' (short story) 108, 144

Wasp's Nest, The
108–11, 341, 557–8, 563

Witness for the Prosecution, The
(short story collection) 334

Witness for the Prosecution
239, 285, 334–96, 405, 406, 410, 411, 421, 564–5; AC on 338, 343, 344–62, 365, 367, 373–6, 559; AC's legal reading and 337, 338, 344, 374; as AC's undisputed theatrical masterpiece 334; awards for 343, 389–90, 392; Broadway production of 27, 377–91, 393, 395; cast 340, 341, 342–3, 344, 345, 346, 348–9, 351–2, 359, 360, 361, 362–3, 364, 365, 366, 367, 375, 376, 380, 381, 383, 384, 389, 392, 393, 456–7; closes 425; correspondence between Saunders (in London) and Christie (in Iraq) over script 1953 344–62; directors 16, 109, 338, 340–2, 382–4, 387, 391–2; film of 390–3, 396; film rights 381, 390–2; financing 366, 372–3, 390; legal experts input into 285, 337–8, 350, 352, 353, 354; length of run 377; licences/rights 23–5, 87, 105, 108, 113–14, 119–20, 372–3, 377, 379–80, 381–2, 390–2, 395, 396; Max Mallowan on 366, 376; orchestra 364–5, 376–7; origin and writing of 26, 304, 334–62; plot, themes and characters 8, 12, 239, 334–40, 363–4; pre-Broadway tour 384, 388; pre-West End tour 365; publicity 372; reviews 366–71, 387–8; royal family and 371–2, 412, 437;
Saunders and UK productions of 334, 335, 336–7, 338, 340–77, 421, 422; Saunders and US productions and 377–90; scale of 6, 362–4; script 6, 18, 265, 285, 334–42, 343–62, 380; success of 372–3; title 334, 336–7; tours of 270, 556; TV rights 381–2, 390; West End opening and run 364–77

‘Woman and the Kenite, The' 50

Yellow Iris, The
(radio play and short story) 537

Agatha the actress; as Sister Anne in
The Blue Beard of Unhappiness
.

Agatha and Archie.

Script page from
The Lie
.

Bertie Meyer

Agatha's sister, Madge.

ReandeaN: Alec Rea

and Basil Dean.

Charles Laughton

Francis L. Sullivan as Poirot.

Advertisement for
Chimneys
in the Embassy Theatre programme for
Britannia of Billingsgate
(1931).

Francis L Sullivan with Christie stage directors Douglas A. Clarke-Smith and Wallace Douglas in the 1937 television performance of
The Wasp's Nest
.

Writer and actor Frank Vosper.

Script page from Agatha Christie's
The Stranger
.