The play is in two acts and begins with Mrs. Laura Warwick more or less standing with a gun over the body of her wheelchair-bound husband. It is a foggy night, and even as she is thus posed, stranger Michael Starkwedder, whose car has run off the road, stops for help/5(13). · Author: Agatha Christie. Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends and for playing a game she calls supposing – imagining a difficult situation and figuring out how people would respond. Click on the buttons below to download The Unexpected Guest A Play In Two Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. The Unexpected Guest. Full-Length Play, Melodrama / 3f, 7m Agatha Christie. A claustrophobic thriller set on a foggy night in three acts. Request license. Get the Script. Get an estimate Concord Theatricals. The Unexpected Guest Agatha Christie ().
The Unexpected Guest will be Stage-Door's 35th show, and will be directed by John Covey. The play was written by Agatha Christie in , and originally played at the Duchess Theatre on London's West End, after a previous try-out at the Bristol Hippodrome, where it was directed by Hubert Gregg. With John Covey at the play will doubtless take a life of it's own, away from previous productions. Book Report. 1. In the book, "The Unexpected Guest", there are two main themes. The main themes are revenge, and love and hate. Revenge is a very important theme to the plot because Mr. Richard Warwick, the man killed, had ran over the little boy of a man who later comes back to kill him. Love and hate is also a theme. Auditions will consist of cold readings of selected scenes from the script. Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. But the woman's dazed confession is anything but convincing, and the unexpected guest decides to help. Remarkably, the police clues point to a man who died two years previously.
OCLC. The Unexpected Guest is a novelization by Charles Osborne of the play of the same name by crime fiction writer Agatha Christie and was first published in the UK by HarperCollins on 6 September , and on 1 October in the US by St. Martin's Press. The Unexpected Guest is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie. The play opened in the West End at the Duchess Theatre on 12 August after a previous try-out at the Bristol Hippodrome. It was directed by Hubert Gregg. The play is in fact only one of several works all sharing the same. A thriller as well as a puzzler set in a foggy estate in Wales, this mystery opens as a stranger walks into a house to find a man murdered and his wife standing over him with a gun. But the woman is dazed and her confession is unconvincing. The unexpected guest decides to help her and blame the murder on an intruder.
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