Love from a Stranger is a 1936 play based on Philomel Cottage, a short story by British mystery writer Agatha Christie which had been published in the Grand Magazine issue of November 1924 and was subsequently included in the UK collection The Listerdale Mystery in June 1934 (It appeared in the US in the 1948 collection Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories).
The play was adapted by Frank Vosper and opened at the New Theatre on March 31, ...
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Love from a Stranger is a 1936 play based on Philomel Cottage, a short story by British mystery writer Agatha Christie which had been published in the Grand Magazine issue of November 1924 and was subsequently included in the UK collection The Listerdale Mystery in June 1934 (It appeared in the US in the 1948 collection Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories).
The play was adapted by Frank Vosper and opened at the New Theatre on March 31, 1936. Vosper himself starred in the play which was later turned into a successful film. Promotional extracts were broadcast on the BBC Regional Programme on Friday May 1, 1936 in a twenty minute programme starting at 7.10pm with members of the then-current stage cast.
On May 9, 1936, the final performance was given at the New Theatre and the play immediately transferred to the Queen's Theatre on Monday, May 11 where it ran until Saturday, August 8, 1936. It reopened two days later at the Streatham Hill Theatre for one week.
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