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Spider's Web

  • Agatha Christie
  • Full Length Play, Mystery/Thriller
  • 8M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573702334

Clarissa has a wild imagination, so will anyone believe her when she discovers a dead body in her house? Is her step-daughter really a murderer?

  • Full Length Play
  • Mystery/Thriller

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Haslisham Brown, is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects the murderer might be her young step-daughter Pippa. 

Worse still, the victim is the man who broke up Henry's first marriage! 

Clarissa's fast talking places her in some hair raising experiences, as she comes to learn that the facts are much more terrifying than fiction...

REVIEWS:

"So closely woven with thrills and comedy that shocks and laughs are about fifty fifty."

 London Guardian

Premiere Production: Presented by Peter Saunders at the Savoy Theatre, London, on the 14th of December, 1954.
  • Casting: 8M, 3F

SIR ROWLAND DELAHAYE
HUGO BIRCH
JEREMY WARRENDER
CLARISSA HAILSHAM-BROWN
PIPPA HAILSHAM-BROWN - Clarissa's young stepdaughter
MILDRED PEAKE
ELGIN - the butler
OLIVER COSTELLO
HENRY HAILSHAM-BROWN - Clarissa's husband
INSPECTOR LORD
CONSTABLE JONES

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Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Haslisham Brown, is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects the murderer might be her young step-daughter Pippa. 

Worse still, the victim is the man who broke up Henry's first marriage! 

Clarissa's fast talking places her in some hair raising experiences, as she comes to learn that the facts are much more terrifying than fiction...

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