Poirot and Me - Photograph & Book Images, 2013
Title
Poirot and Me - Photograph & Book Images, 2013
Date
7 November 2013
Description
Special event to launch Poirot and Me, a book by actor David Suchet detailing his time playing Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot on ITV.
What's the story?
David Suchet is one of the UK’s finest stage and TV actors; however, it is his TV role as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot that he is most associated.
He was asked to play the role in 1988 and eventually played the Belgian detective in every one of the seventy Poirot stories that Christie wrote, culminating with Curtain in 2013.
In 2013, Headline published Poirot and Me, Suchet’s account of playing the role, written in partnership with his friend Geoffrey Wansell.
For the book’s publication, Suchet and Wansell did a short tour, starting at the Theatre Royal Nottingham.
The venue was chosen due to its strong association with Agatha Christie. In particular, in October 1952 The Mousetrap has its world premiere at the Theatre Royal and it is still playing in London in 2019. Christie described the Theatre Royal as “her lucky theatre”.
Taking place during the afternoon on 7 November 2013, on the set of Nottingham Operatic Society’s production of Oklahoma!, the Poirot and Me event was a complete sell-out, with long queues afterwards for books to be signed by David Suchet.
The images included here are David Suchet signing books in the Theatre Royal stalls foyer; the press release from Headline with details about the book; the front cover image of Poirot and Me and a signed page from the book by David Suchet and Geoffrey Wansell, given to David Longford, the Theatre Royal’s Creative Learning Manager, who organised this special event.
He was asked to play the role in 1988 and eventually played the Belgian detective in every one of the seventy Poirot stories that Christie wrote, culminating with Curtain in 2013.
In 2013, Headline published Poirot and Me, Suchet’s account of playing the role, written in partnership with his friend Geoffrey Wansell.
For the book’s publication, Suchet and Wansell did a short tour, starting at the Theatre Royal Nottingham.
The venue was chosen due to its strong association with Agatha Christie. In particular, in October 1952 The Mousetrap has its world premiere at the Theatre Royal and it is still playing in London in 2019. Christie described the Theatre Royal as “her lucky theatre”.
Taking place during the afternoon on 7 November 2013, on the set of Nottingham Operatic Society’s production of Oklahoma!, the Poirot and Me event was a complete sell-out, with long queues afterwards for books to be signed by David Suchet.
The images included here are David Suchet signing books in the Theatre Royal stalls foyer; the press release from Headline with details about the book; the front cover image of Poirot and Me and a signed page from the book by David Suchet and Geoffrey Wansell, given to David Longford, the Theatre Royal’s Creative Learning Manager, who organised this special event.
Type
Photographs , Press Release & Book Scans
Location of item
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Rights
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Contributor
Researcher: David Longford
