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Love from a Stranger is a 1936 play based on "Philomel Cottage", a 1924 short story by British mystery writer Agatha Christie. Background. The play was adapted by Frank Vosper and opened at the New Theatre on 31 March 1936. Vosper starred in the play, which was later turned into a successful film.
- Frank Vosper from a story by Agatha Christie
- 1936
Love From a Stranger is an adaptation by Agatha Christie and Frank Vosper which draws both on Christie's earlier play, The Stranger, and her short story, Philomel Cottage. Some years before this play, Christie herself wrote a stage version, calling it The Stranger.
Mar 30, 2018 · Psychological thriller Love From A Stranger was written in 1932 and went through a number of alterations before opening in the West End in 1936.
- Neil Norman
May 2, 2018 · The gestation of the stage play Love from a Stranger was almost as convoluted as an Agatha Christie plot. Originally written in 1924 as a short story Philomel Cottage , it emerged ten years later in The Listerdale Mystery .
Adapted by Frank Vosper, the play Love from a Stranger draws on both Agatha Christie’s short story Philomel Cottage, and her recently discovered own stage adaptation of the same short story, The Stranger.
Apr 25, 2018 · Love from a Stranger originally started as one of Christie's short stories, Philomel Cottage from 1934. Two years later, Christie wrote a stage version to which actor and playwright...
Cambridge Repertory Society’s production of Christie’s Love from a Stranger taps into the trend. The material has its origins in a 1924 short story, though the play itself, co-written by Frank Vosper, dates from twelve years later.
