Anthony Shaffer
This Broadway success by the author of Sleuth takes audiences to Agatha Christie's England. Six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer's mansion during a thunderstorm. The guests include an aged rear admiral, a bitchy aristocrat, a doddering old archeologist, a dashing young cad and other Christie types. One of the guests is an oily Levantine who tells the others (each in private) that he has the goods to blackmail them. He is ripe for murder and so it happens. Whodunnit?
Anthony Joshua Shaffer (1926-2001) was born in Liverpool, the elder (by five minutes!) of twins in 1926. Later on, the boys, Anthony and Peter, were taken by their mother regularly to the Liverpool Playhouse, where Anthony developed a taste for the thriller, the melodrama and ...
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