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Pitlochry premiere for agatha Christie play

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From: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
Date: 20060602
Author:Mike Boyle

A Play penned by the undisputed queen of the whodunit, lost for more than 70 years, has made its European debut at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Agatha Christie's Chimneys was scheduled to open at the Embassy Theatre, London, in December 1931, but for reasons that have never been understood, the play was not performed.

In a mystery worthy of the writer herself, the manuscript then disappeared for almost 70 years until a dusty copy was sent anonymously to a theatre company in Canada in the mid-1990s.

Authenticated by the Christie estate as the genuine article, Chimneys received its first ...

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