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Appointment With Death

  • Agatha Christie
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1930s, 1940s / WWII
  • 9M, 7F
  • ISBN: 9780573110191

An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel. When Mrs. Boynton is found dead, all are suspects even though she was ill enough to die a natural death. 

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1930s, 1940s / WWII
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashireman. 

Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred to murder her as could the doctor whose affection for Raymond Boynton is being obstructed by the old lady. 

When Mrs. Boynton is found dead, all are suspects even though she was ill enough to die a natural death. Just when the tension becomes unbearable, the doctor discovers essential evidence about Mrs. Boynton's devilish plan to possess and torment the children in death as in life.
REVIEWS:

"The victim, an emotional terrorist and one of Christie's finest creations."

 Sophie Hannah, The Guardian

"In the character of the stepmother, the author had a most toothsome villainess."

 Mel Gussow, The New York Times

Premiere Production: Appointment with Death opened in the West End on March 31, 1945 at the Piccadilly Theatre. It was directed by Terence de Marney.

Characters

  • Casting: 9M, 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

COLENEL CARBURY - senior figure in Transjordania
MRS. BOYNTON - the victim
RAYMOND BOYNTON - the victim's stepson, Lennox's younger brother
LENNOX BOYNTON - the victim's stepson, Raymond's older brother
NADINE BOYNTON - Lennox's wife
JEFFERSON COPE - a family friend
GINERVA BOYNTON - the victim's daughter
DR. GERARD - a French psychologist
SARAH KING - a young doctor
LADY WESTHOLME - a member of Parliament
MISS ANNABEL PRYCE - a former nursery governess
ALDERMAN HIGGS - from Lancashire
LIFTBOY
CLERK/BEDOUIN
DRAGOMAN
LADY VISITOR
HOTEL VISITORS

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An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashireman. Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred to murder her as could the doctor whose affection for Raymond Boynton is being obstructed by the old lady. When Mrs. Boynton is found dead, all are suspects even though she was ill enough to die a natural death. Just when the tension becomes unbearable, the doctor discovers essential evidence about Mrs. Boynton's devilish plan to possess and torment the children in death as in life.

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