![]() ![]() His interactions with Audrey are perhaps the most profound of the play – allowing Christie to explore thematically the notions of mor- tality, suicide, depression and even redemption. ![]() Christie’s adaptation is a three-act, five-scene drama set to take place over eight days with thirteen actors whilst Verner’s version is again three acts but with six scenes set over seven days involving eleven actors.Īngus McWhirter is perhaps the most important character missing from Verner’s text but makes a very significant contribution to Christie’s original. However, there are important differences involving set up of the pro- duction. Both explore the idea that murder shouldn’t be the beginning of a story but the end. The events of both plays explore how the characters, through their various interactions move towards a ‘zero hour’ of murder. However, a few years ago, it was discovered that Agatha Christie had in fact written her own stage adaptation of the novel which was commissioned by the Shuberts in 1944 and it is this version that we present as part of The Collection.Ĭhristie’s playscript followed her formula of neat plotting with a surprise outcome, but as was often the case with her playwrighting she paid par- ticular attention to characterisation and motivation.īoth versions of the text follow a similar narrative and pattern. Arguably the best known adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel, Towards Zero, was that of prolific writer, Gerald Verner, in 1951. ![]()
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