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Fiddlers Three (play)
''Fiddlers Three'' is a play written by Agatha Christie in 1972. It was first written as ''Fiddlers Five'', under which title it toured successfully in 1971, after opening at Southsea on 7 June. The following year, the revised version toured briefly after its premiere at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford on 1 August, with Doris Hare and Raymond Francis heading the cast.Agatha Christie – Official Centenary Celebration (Page 81). 1990. Belgrave Publishing Ltd. This production was directed by Allan Davis, with sets designed by Anthony Holland and lighting by Michael Saddington. Christie had pushed for the play to be performed, much against the wishes of her daughter, Rosalind Hicks, who was protective of her mother's reputation and felt that this piece would damage it.Thompson, Laura. ''Agatha Christie, An English Mystery''. (Page 473). Headline, 2007 The revised version incorporated several suggestions from Davis, who had seen the previous 1971 version. Despite touring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End theatre, West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a nickname now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. She is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre is a theatre located in Guildford, Surrey, England. Named after the actress Yvonne Arnaud, it presents a series of locally produced and national touring productions, including opera, ballet and pantomime. The theatre has two performance venues, the main auditorium and the smaller Mill Studio. History Replacing a former repertory theatre in North Street which had been gutted by a fire in 1963, the present complex was opened in 1965 in a riverside site, incorporating a restaurant and bar available to non-theatregoers. Sir Michael Redgrave had ceremonially driven the first pile in October 1962. The foundation stone was laid by Vanessa Redgrave in September 1963, who commemorated the occasion by casting her foot in concrete. Susan Hampshire "topped out" the roof of the theatre on 11 November 1964. The company opted to dispense with traditional repertory theatre in favour of a more flexible model in which actors are cast as appropriate to different prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guildford
Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildford" is thought to derive from a ford (crossing), crossing of the River Wey, a tributary of the River Thames that flows through the town centre. The earliest evidence of human activity in the area is from the Mesolithic and Guildford is mentioned in the will and testament, will of Alfred the Great from . The exact location of the main Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon settlement is unclear and the current site of the modern town centre may not have been occupied until the early 11th century. Following the Norman Conquest, a motte-and-bailey castle was constructed; which was developed into a royal residence by Henry III of England, Henry III. During the England in the Middle Ages, late Middle Ages, Guildford prospered as a result of the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Hare
Doris Breamer Hare (1 March 1905 – 30 May 2000) was a Welsh actress, comedian, singer, and dancer best known for portraying Ethel Butler in the British sitcom ''On the Buses'' and its film spin-offs, after replacing the original actress Cicely Courtneidge. Early life Hare was born in Bargoed, Glamorgan. Her parents had a portable theatre in South Wales and it seemed inevitable that she would become a part of it, making her debut at the age of three in ''Queen's Evidence'' and appearing in juvenile troupes all over Britain as a child, before going solo as 'Little Doris Hare', appearing in music hall, variety, cabaret, revues and pantomimes. One of five, her brother, Bertie Hare and her sisters, Betty Hare and Winifred Breamer, were also actors and performers. Career In 1930, the actress toured in ''The Show's the Thing'', taking the part previously performed by Gracie Fields. In 1932, she appeared in the West End theatre, West End in Noël Coward's show ''Words and Music (musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Francis
Raymond Francis (6 October 1911 – 24 October 1987) was a British actor best known for his role as Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart in the Associated-Rediffusion detective series ''Murder Bag'', ''Crime Sheet'' and ''No Hiding Place''. He played the role of Lockhart in these series from 1957 to 1967, and the character was one of the first recurring television detectives. Career Born in London as Reginald George Thompson, his first listed television role was as Dr. Watson alongside Alan Wheatley's Holmes in a 1951 BBC TV series entitled '' We Present Alan Wheatley as Mr Sherlock Holmes in...'', the earliest TV adaptation of the tales. He later reprised the role in a 1984 film '' The Case of Marcel Duchamp''. His distinguished appearance often led to roles as senior policemen, military men and English aristocrats; he played such parts in series including ''Dickens of London'', '' Edward & Mrs. Simpson'', '' The Cedar Tree'', '' Tales of the Unexpected'', ''After Juli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalind Hicks
Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks (formerly Prichard, née Christie; 5 August 1919 – 28 October 2004) was the only child of author Agatha Christie. Biography Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie was born on 5 August, 1919 in her grandmother's home, Ashfield, Torquay. Her father, Archie Christie, was a military officer previously in the ''Royal Flying Corps''. In 1914, he married aspiring writer Agatha Christie, daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Miller. At the time of Rosalind's birth, the manuscript of ''The Mysterious Affair At Styles'', Christie's first novel, had been sent out to John Lane and was published a year later. At age 7, Rosalind and her parents moved to Sunningdale, where they bought a house, naming it ''Styles''. After several months, Rosalind's grandmother, Clarissa Miller, died. Deeply wounded, Agatha moved back into Ashfield (which had been her own childhood home), where she was visited by her husband, who confessed his affair with his se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Morgan, Lady Balfour Of Burleigh
Janet Patricia Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh CBE, FRSE (born December 1945) is a Canadian-born English writer and historian. The daughter of Dr. Frank Morgan and Sheila Saddler, she was born Janet Morgan in Montreal while her father was working on a top-secret British atomic research project, the Montreal Laboratory. She returned to England with her family before the end of World War II. She earned a MA and PhD. She was named a Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 2008. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1993, she married Robert Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh. She has been chair of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network, the Nuclear Liabilities Fund and the Nuclear Trust. She has served as a director of the Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust and Murray International Trust. Morgan wrote a biography of Agatha Christie that was authorised by the writer's family. She also wrote biographies of Edwina Mountbatten and George Bruce, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Mount
Margaret Rose Mount (2 May 1915 – 13 November 2001) was an English actress. As a child, she found acting an escape from an unhappy home life. After playing in amateur productions, she was taken on by a repertory company and spent nine years in various British towns, learning her craft. In 1955, she got her big break in the comic play '' Sailor Beware!'': she created the leading role in a repertory production and, though unknown to London audiences, was given the part when the play was presented in the West End. She became known for playing domineering middle-aged women in plays, films and television shows. Mount occasionally performed in comedies from the classical repertoire, including works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Goldsmith and Sheridan, and she was a member of The Old Vic, National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare companies in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, respectively. Later in her career, Mount was cast more frequently in serious parts, including the title role of Bertolt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Of London
The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, Central London, England, in the London Borough of Camden, London Boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster. It is west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated - and as such the term "West End" is used internationally as a metonym for London's theatre district and associated performing arts scene - just as "Broadway theatre, Broadway" is used to describe that of New York City. The term was first used in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of Charing Cross.Mills, A., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001) While the City of London is the main financial district in London, the West End is the main commercial and entertainment centre of the city. It is the largest c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Knight
Julia Frandsen Knight is an American mathematician, specializing in model theory and computability theory.Faculty profile Notre Dame, retrieved 2013-10-16. She is the Charles L. Huisking Professor of Mathematics at the and director of the graduate program in mathematics there.Julia Knight – Named professorships and directorships at Notre Dame , retrieved 2013-10-16. Education Knight did ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Baraker
Gábor Baraker (10 June 1926 – 30 April 1983) was a Hungarian actor who performed in his home country, Australia and the United Kingdom. Early life Before Baraker could complete his schooling, he and his Jewish family came under threat from the persecution of Jews during the latter years of the Second World War. As a result, his family's shops were confiscated, his parents and sister were sent to a concentration camp and he was sent to work in a Nazi Labour Camp. There, Baraker built railroad tracks, which he helped blow up again when Russian advances neared. With 32 others, he escaped and hid until the Russians passed by, following them into Budapest." Career Having survived the Holocaust, Baraker was able to attend the Budapest Academy of Dramatic Art, passing a four-year course within three years. Becoming a member of the Budapest National Theatre, he won distinction in his home country, playing leading roles in the great classics, meeting the standard repertoire of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Wing-Davey
Mark Wing-Davey (born 30 November 1948) is a British actor and director. He portrayed Zaphod Beeblebrox in the radio and television versions of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Early life The son of actor Peter Davey and actress Anna Wing, Wing-Davey attended Woolverstone Hall School in Suffolk before studying English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights between 1967 and 1970. In February 1968, he performed with Nick Drake at Lady Mitchell Hall, University Of Cambridge. Wing-Davey played violin in the string section accompanying Drake on orchestral arrangements of his songs by Robert Kirby. Career He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries '' The Glittering Prizes''. This role was later cited by Geoffrey Perkins as the likely reason for his being cast in arguably his most memorable role, that of the two-headed Galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox, in the radio and TV versions of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
