Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks to Star in West End Debut of Agatha Christie's A Daughter's A Daughter

Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks will star in the West End premiere of Agatha Christie's A Daughter's A Daughter, beginning performances at Trafalgar Studios 1 on December 14. The limited four-week run, directed by Roy Marsden, plays until January 9, 2010. The production marks the first full-scale mounting of the play since its original debut in 1954.

A Daughter’s A Daughter was penned under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott, which Agatha Christie used for a series of six romantic novels published between 1930 and 1956. Quite different from any of Christie’s previous work for the stage, it is considered a more personal play than anything else she wrote.

Described as a tense glimpse at obsession within a dysfunctional and self-serving family, the show follows Sarah (Weeks) after her return from the Second World War. Resentment and jealousy rage as gradually the relationship between Sarah and her mother, Ann (Seagrove), corrodes while each seeks solace and happiness in futile pursuits.

The cast also features Tracey Childs, Simon Dutton and Ann Wenn.

Weeks will be making her West End debut. Her screen and television credits include Foyle's War, Goggle Eyes, A Dark Adapted Eye, The Strawberry Tree, The Orchard Walls and Catherine Cookson’s The Rag Nymph. Regional stage credits include Twelfth Night and The Turn of the Screw.

Seagrove's West End work includes Absurd Person Singular, The Letter, The Night of the Iguana, The Secret Rapture, The Constant Wife, Brief Encounter, Hurly Burly, The Female Odd Couple and Present Laughter. Films include Zoe, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, The Guardian, A Chorus of Disapproval, Appointment With Death, Local Hero, Miss Beatty’s Children and A Shocking Accident. Television credits include Judge John Deed, Lewis, Hold the Dream, A Woman of Substance, Diana, The Woman in White and The Brack Report.

A Daughter's A Daughter features sets and costumes by Simon Scullion, lighting by Mark Howett and sound by Ian Horrocks-Taylor.