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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Mousetrap and Other Plays (originale 1924; edizione 2000)di Agatha Christie (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ten Little Indian; Appointment With Death; The Hollow; The Mousetrap; Witness for the Prosecution; Towards Zero; Verdict; Go Back for Murder This one is going to screw with my stats - I read The Mousetrap last night while BookLikes was offline but this book contains 6? other plays as well that I didn't read. Clearly, this review will be for just The Mousetrap and not the actual book. This play is pure Agatha Christie and reading it, just as any of her other works, makes it painfully clear that all cozy writers since have been but pale imitators of one of the few originals. Locked room mystery, the gathering of the suspects, misunderstanding-based suspicions, the final denouement: they're all here in this entertaining, quick read. I'm never eager to read plays because I struggle not to read the stage direction (which never makes any sense to me at all) which tends to keep me from enjoying the story, but I could totally see the stage almost immediately, and I just lost myself in the audience. The next time I'm in London, seeing this play is one of two non-negotiable must-do's (Ceremony of the Keys is #1). [PopSugar 2015 Reading Challenge: A Play.] I used to read Agatha Christie avidly when I was younger, but gave her up after I read the corpus. Now I decided to tackle her plays, partially because I wanted to see why The Mousetrap was the longest running play on Broadway. It didn't help. The play was good, interesting, but it seemed the answer was almost too obvious too early, and it certainly was not better than, or even as good as, some other plays that have been on Broadway for shorter periods of time. Still, the works were interesting, and rekindled my interest in Agatha Christie, such that I may begin a re-read of her works now that 35 years have passed and I might have a chance of approaching them fresh. I was disappointed at the changed ending of And Then There Were None, the new ending no doubt to satisfy an American theatre going audience that wouldn't tolerate the rather less rosy ending of the original...or maybe the logistics were just considered too difficult, though I can think of at least three ways it could have been pulled off, even before the advent of computerized everything and television sets/movie screens used in stage productions. Still, it was satisfying and fun. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Agatha Christie created magnificent works of suspense for the theater, and eight of her riveting stage dramas are collected in The Mousetrap and Other Plays-including the title piece, the longest running play in history, still a smash hit in London's West End after 60 years! On an isolated island, ten people have been brought together to be killed off. An evil old woman has a rendezvous with death in the desert heat of Jerusalem. A scheming wife testifies against her husband in a shocking murder trial. And a homicidal maniac terrorizes a group of snowbound guests to the refrain of "Three Blind Mice." This collection of eight works proves that Agatha Christie's plays are as compulsive as her novels, with their colorful characters and ingenious plots providing yet more evidence of her mastery of the detective thriller. Includes: And Then There Were None, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, The Mousetrap, Witness for the Prosecution, Towards Zero, Verdict, and Go Back for Murder. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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