Beginning this month, the Alley Theatre produces Agatha Christie's BLACK COFFEE during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. Under the direction of Gregory Boyd, the Alley's resident company of actors will bring to life the cast of characters, including the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, in Agatha Christie's BLACK COFFEE.
Agatha Christie's BLACK COFFEE begins performances tonight, July 7, opens officially Sunday, July 8, and runs through Sunday, August 5 on the Hubbard Stage.
For the past 18 years, the Alley Theatre's ExxonMobil Summer Chills has been a long-running tradition featuring the resident Acting Company.
In Agatha Christie's BLACK COFFEE, Poirot absorbs clues to solve the murder of Sir Claude Amory, an inventor of a new weapons formula. The cast is filled with the suspicious characters and features a plot with twists that are the trademark of Christie. BLACK COFFEE is Christie's first play, initially produced in 1930.
Dame Agatha Christie, creator of murder mysteries, was born in 1890 and worked as a hospital dispenser during World War I. Her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian hero who was to appear in many subsequent novels and plays. Over the next 56 years, Christie wrote 66 novels and more than a dozen plays, including Murder on the Orient Express, The Mousetrap, The Unexpected Guest, And Then There Were None, and the Miss Marple mysteries – which served as the basis for the films Murder, She Said and Murder at the Gallop and the inspiration for many television programs. The Alley has produced many of Christie's plays, among them Death on the Nile, Witness for the Prosecution, The Mousetrap, Spider's Web, Towards Zero, and Black Coffee.
Tickets to Agatha Christie's Black Coffee start at $25. All tickets to Agatha Christie's Black Coffee are available for purchase at alleytheatre.org, at the Alley Theatre Box Office, 615 Texas Avenue, or by calling 713.220.5700. Groups of 10 or more can receive special concierge services and select discounts by calling 713.220.5700 and asking for the group sales department.Black Coffee is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
BLACK COFFEE Copyright © 1930 Agatha Christie Limited, a Chorion Company. All rights reserved.
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