Spider's Web
Program from Spider's Web at the Savoy Theatre, London
Felix Aylmer (Sir Rowland Delahaye)
Harold Scott (Hugo Birch)
Myles Eason (Jeremy Warrender)
Margaret Lockwood (Clarissa Hailsham-Brown)
Margaret Barton (Pippa Hailsham-Brown)
Judith Furse (Mildred Peake)
Sidney Monckton (Elgin)
Charles Morgan (Oliver Costello)
John Warwick (Henry Hailsham-Brown)
Campbell Singer (Inspector Lord)
Desmond Llewelyn (Constable Jones)












This lighthearted comedy-thriller was written by Agatha Christie expressly for Margaret Lockwood. She played the role of a diplomat's wife who finds that she has to dispose of an unexpected corpse in the library before her husband brings an important foreign politician home to dinner.(7 pictures)


Synopsis of Scenes

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

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


Photographs (2)

Photograph from Spider's Web at the Savoy Theatre, London Photograph from Spider's Web at the Savoy Theatre, London

Programmes (4)

Program from Spider's Web at the Savoy Theatre, London Program from Spider's Web at the Savoy Theatre, London Program from Spider's Web at the Golders Green Hippodrome Program from Spider's Web at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool

Books and Magazines (1)

Magazine (Plays and Players, 10th January, 1955) featuring Spider's Web

Production Information

Spider's Web - Savoy Theatre, London, 1954. Peter Saunders (Presented by), Wallace Douglas (Director), Michael Weight (Setting)

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