Agatha Christie
Spider's Web

written in 1954
Samuel French, 1957

Play

Presented by Peter Saunders at the Savoy Theatre, London, on 14th December 1954, with the following cast of characters:

(in the order of their appearance)

SIR ROWLAND DELAHAYE	Felix Aylmer
HUGO BIRCH	Harold Scott
JEREMY WARRENDER	Myles Eason
CLARISSA HAILSHAM-BROWN	Margaret Lockwood
PIPPA HAILSHAM-BROWN	Margaret Barton
MILDRED PEAKE	Judith Furse
ELGIN	Sidney Monckton
OLIVER COSTELLO	Charles Morgan
HENRY HAILSHAM-BROWN	John Warwick
INSPECTOR LORD	Campbell Singer
CONSTABLE JONES	Desmond Llewelyn

Directed by Wallace Douglas

Setting by Michael Weight

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

The action of the play passes in the drawing-room of Copplestone Court, the Hailsham-Browns' home in Kent

ACT I - An evening in March

ACT II

SCENE 1 - A quarter of an hour later

SCENE 2 - Ten minutes later

ACT III - A few minutes later

Time - the present

Movie & TV

The Spider's Web, 1960

director Godfrey Grayson

writer Albert G. Miller, Eldon Howard

cast Glynis Johns(Clarissa), Jack Hulbert(Sir Rowland), Basil Dignam(Hugo Birch), Ronald Howard(Jeremy Warrender), Cicley Courtneidge(Mildred Peake), Wendy Turner(Pippa)

La toile d'araignée, 1969 (FR/TV)

director Pierre Sabbagh

cast Jean Ozenne(Sir Edward), Franccedil;ois Nocher(Philip), Jean-Claude Arnaud(Walter), Gaby Sylvia(Patricia), Sylvie Bourgoin(Margaret), Madeleine Clervanne(Mlle Peake), Bernard Musson(Elgin), Jean Roquel(Costello), Robert Fontanet(Henry), Erwan Kerne(Smith), Raymond Gérôme(L'inspecteur)

The Spider's Web, 1982

director Basil Coleman

cast Penelope Keith(Clarissa), Robert Flemyng(Sir Rowland), Thorley Walters(Hugo Birch), David Yelland(Jeremy Warrender), Elizabeth Spriggs(Mildred Peake), Holly Aird(Pippa)

Link

1. Wikipedia: Spider's Web
2. IMDb: Spider's Web (1960)
3. IMDb: Au théâtre ce soir: La toile d'araignée (1969)
4. IMDb: Spider's Web (1982)

Spider's Web [Novelize]

adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne

HarperCollins, 2000*

Link

1. Official Site: Spider's Web