Theatre: Murder, Margaret and Me........

Agatha Christie turns sleuth in a play by Philip Meeks.

Agatha Christie and Margaret Rutherford should never have been friends. But they were. Their paths crossed when they found themselves at the heart of one of British cinema's most successful franchises. However, the Miss Marple films almost didn't get made.

Murder, Margaret and Me is a story of friendship, identity and the achievement of women in the long-lost world of the silver screen.

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Lin Blakely played Agatha Christie. I knew her from her long running Eastenders character. Sarah Parks played Margaret Rutherford, and Miss Marple was played by Gilly Tompkins.

They were all brilliant, bouncing off each other to deliver a very funny script that also had some deep emotional stories to tell too.

For anyone expecting a typical Agatha Christie murder mystery they would have been surprise but I hope not disappointed at this private look behind the scenes at the unlikely friendship that developed.
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