Curtain Up (86 page)

Renée Asherson.

The Playbill for the 1965 US production of
the Unexpected Guest
starring Joan Fontaine.

Agatha Christie enjoying the company of Verity Hudson, Hubert Gregg, Robertson Hare, Margaret Lockwood, Pat Kirkwood, Peter Saunders and Marie Löhr to celebrate Verity Hudson's twenty-one years working for Peter Saunders (1969).

Mathew Prichard, Max Mallowan, Agatha Christie and Peter Saunders at
The Mousetrap'
s 21st birthday party (1973).

JULIUS GREEN
has numerous West End plays and musicals to his credit as a producer. In 2001 he produced the twelve-week Agatha Christie Theatre Festival, uniquely presenting a repertoire of Christie's complete plays as then known, and in 2006 he created the Agatha Christie Theatre Company. He studied history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London. He has served on the Board of Management of the Society of London Theatre and the Board of Directors of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is a director of the Academy of Circus Arts. Green is a regular columnist for
The Stage
newspaper and the author of
How to Produce a West End Show
. He lives in Cambridge, England.

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HOW TO PRODUCE A WEST END SHOW

COVER PHOTOGRAPHS © OLI SCARFF / GETTY IMAGES (ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE)

Photographs courtesy of the Christie Archive Trust, the Shubert Archive, the University of Bristol Theatre Collection/ArenaPAL, the National Portrait Gallery, the Peter Saunders Archive, the Museum of the City of New York Theatre Collection, the Theatre Royal Bath Archive and Getty Images.

CURTAIN UP
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Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by HarperCollins UK.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

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ISBN: 978-0-06-231339-3

EPub Edition December 2015 ISBN 9780062416315

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