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Lost works reborn at Christie celebration
Doorstep Arts and Beyond Face
Japanese dancers
The production of The Lie
THE proud heritage of Torquay’s own Queen of Crime was celebrated during the International Agatha Christie Festival over the weekend.
The highlight of the three-day celebration was the World Premiere of a ‘forgotten’ play at the Palace Theatre in Paignton.
The Lie was written by Agatha Christie in the 1920s.
Written in the wake of the break-up of her first marriage to Archie Christie, it reveals some of the dramatic ingenuity that became the hallmark of her later world-famous thrillers, such as The Mousetrap and Witness to the Prosecution.
West End theatre producer
Doorstep Arts and Beyond Face
An interactive augmented reality headset at Torre Abbey and founder of the official Agatha Christie Theatre Company Julius Green discovered the play while researching his book, Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre at the Christie Archive Trust.
It was read on stage on Saturday, the 128th anniversary of Dame Agatha’s birth.
Elsewhere, Torre Abbey Museum and Torquay Museum hosted events using the latest
The production of The Lie virtual reality technology and archive recordings of Dame Agatha reading the first chapter of her final Poirot mystery.
On Saturday Greenway House hosted a celebration fête with traditional games and stalls.
There was also a dramatic Japanese dance performance on Torquay’s Princess Pier, where Agatha Christie was famously photographed roller skating.