![]() ![]() ![]() Enter Hercule Poirot, a brilliant Belgian refugee making his debut as Christie’s detective extraordinaire, who applies his famous brain to the seemingly unsolvable mystery.įeatured in the pivotal role as Poirot, one of the great detectives of English literature, is Patrick Brady, making his third appearance on the Theatre Centre stage. The cause is murder and the killer could be anyone: her unappealing new husband, her ne’er-do-well son, the blunt female groundskeeper, even the local toxicologist. But when the lady of the house suspiciously dies, the tranquil manor turns treacherous. Back from the war, Captain Arthur Hastings convalesces at Styles Court. The story is set in Essex, England, during the summer of 1917. ![]() The Chattanooga Theatre Centre presents Agatha Christie’s “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” beginning Friday, January 26, and continuing through Sunday, February 11. Either way, it will keep you guessing until the end. So the Chattanooga Theatre Centre’s upcoming production of the stage adaptation could be called an old play or a new play. While it launched Christie’s career as one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, the story wasn’t adapted for the stage until 2012. In 1920, a young, unknown British writer named Agatha Christie, acting on a dare from her sister Madge, published her first novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” and the rest, as they say, is history. ![]()
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