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''Black Coffee'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Coffee_(play)] is a thriller by Agatha Christie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie] (1890-1976).   
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''Black Coffee'' is a thriller by Agatha Christie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie] (1890-1976).   
  
Christie's autobiography claimed that the debut performance of ''Black Coffee'' took place at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead. However, no record exists of such a staging and she was undoubtedly confusing it with the true opening production at the Embassy Theatre in Swiss Cottage (now London's Central School of Speech and Drama) on 8 December 1930.
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Christie's autobiography claimed that the debut performance of ''Black Coffee'' took place at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead. However, no record exists of such a staging and she was undoubtedly confusing it with the true opening production at the Embassy Theatre in Swiss Cottage (now London's Central School of Speech and Drama) on 8 December 1930 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Coffee_(play)].
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 10:39, 6 August 2015

Black Coffee is a thriller by Agatha Christie [1] (1890-1976).

Christie's autobiography claimed that the debut performance of Black Coffee took place at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead. However, no record exists of such a staging and she was undoubtedly confusing it with the true opening production at the Embassy Theatre in Swiss Cottage (now London's Central School of Speech and Drama) on 8 December 1930 [2].

Performance history in South Africa

Produced by Brian Brooke in November 1952 (AfricaWide database).

Performed at the Baxter Theatre in 13 December 1984 to 5 January 1985, presented by Pieter Toerien, directed by Rex Garner with Dennis Folbigge, Jane Sinclair, Anne Curteis, Joseph Clark, Anne Power, Graham Weir, Drummond Marais, Timothy Welsh, Bill Flynn as Hercule Poirot, Tim Plewman, Neville Thomas, Paul Bosman and Louis Zuppa. Lighting by Jannie Swanepoel. This production was also seen in Port Elizabeth and Durban.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

Black Coffee theatre programme, 1984.

Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987

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