The Secret Adversary is a 2016 youth theatre stage adaptation made by David Hansen and based on the Agatha Christie novel The Secret Adversary, one of several made during that period of time from this Christie book which had fallen out of copyright in the United States.
The play was first was presented as an Educational Outreach Tour for Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio, in February 2016, directed by Lisa Ortenzi.
The script and licensing for performances is available from Youthplays.com but only in the United States due to copyright restrictions.
Outline[]
The play has been described as a straight-forward transposition of the plot of the book to the stage and can be staged with as few as five cast members, three male and two female. The character of Albert Batt is deleted and the names of the gang members have been changed, with some of the original characters being merged. Some events, particularly where Tuppence, Tommy or Julius Hersheimer follow dead end leads (such as tailing Whittington to a nursing home or going after a red herring to Moat House) have been deleted.
External link[]
http://www.davidhansen.org/the-secret-adversary https://www.youthplays.com/play/the-secret-adversary-by-david-hansen-464