![]() ![]() Hickson was later cast in this role in 1984 in the BBC television series. Christie was so taken with her performance that she wrote to Hickson and stated that she hoped she would one day play the character of Miss Marple. The original West End production is most notable for the appearance of Joan Hickson in the role of Miss Pryce. The play closed on 5 May after just 42 performances. The play was directed by Terence de Marney who had played Philip Lombard in And Then There Were None. The play was not well received by the critics although box office receipts at the start were better than those for And Then There Were None eighteen months earlier. Christie wrote to her agent, Edmund Cork, the month before that "it really seems quite impossible that the play can be ready for Glasgow!" Nevertheless, the play did open there at the King's Theatre on 29 January 1945 and then opened in the West End on 31 March 1945 at the Piccadilly Theatre. The writing was completed by March 1944 and preparations were made towards the end of the year for an opening in Glasgow before transferring to the West End theatre. Her biography states that she started writing the play in a burst of enthusiasm after being involved in the preparations for Murder on the Nile which was being presented by her actor friend Francis L. ![]() It is based on her 1938 novel of the same name.Ĭhristie is silent on the writing of both the book and the play in her autobiography. Appointment with Death is a 1945 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. ![]()
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