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REVIEW: THEATER; This Marple's daffy, but not condescending; Theatre in the Round takes on Agatha Christie's finest Miss Marple mystery.(VARIETY)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20080717
Author:Beard, William Randall

Byline: WILLIAM RANDALL BEARD

Special to the Star Tribune

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is my favorite of her detectives. But it's an elusive character. She was daffy as played by Margaret Rutherford in a series of 1960s movies and almost dour as portrayed by Joan Hickson in the 1980s on PBS. Hickson was closer to Christie's conception, but Rutherford was more fun.

In Theatre in the Round's current production of "A Murder Is Announced," Wendy Freshman falls more toward the daffy end of that spectrum. But while she makes the character sweet and amusing, she plays her ...

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