{"id":444,"date":"2006-08-14T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T01:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=444"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:20:50","slug":"christie_appointment_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/08\/christie_appointment_play\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>Appointment with Death<\/cite> (play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/07\/christie_appointment.php\">listened<\/a> to <strong>Agatha Christie&#8217;s <cite>Appointment with Death<\/cite><\/strong> as a radio play and been badly puzzled by the ending, because I thought the ending was different. A commenter going by &#8220;creepygirl&#8221; pointed out that Christie adapted the novel for stage, removing Poirot and changing the ending to what I remembered (so, err, don&#8217;t read the ROT13&#8217;ed text in that post if you don&#8217;t want to know how the play comes out). I re-read the play today over lunch just to see how it compared.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that the play&#8217;s solution is better; I find it more emotionally satisfying and less snobbish about class, or at least less suspectible to a reading that it was snobbish about class. In fact, the play takes a class thing that was annoying me and turns it neatly on its head, which I appreciated. The proof of the mystery is a little lame, but on the whole I do think Christie&#8217;s rewrite improved the story (which is not always the case, e.g., <cite>And Then There Were None<\/cite>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d listened to Agatha Christie&#8217;s Appointment with Death as a radio play and been badly puzzled by the ending, because I thought the ending was different. A commenter going by &#8220;creepygirl&#8221; pointed out that Christie adapted the novel for stage, removing Poirot and changing the ending to what I remembered (so, err, don&#8217;t read the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/08\/christie_appointment_play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>Appointment with Death<\/cite> (play)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,110],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}