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(disambiguation) Spider's Web Written by Agatha Christie Date
premiered 27 September 1954 Original language English  Spider's
Web is a 1954 play by crime writer Agatha Christie.   Spider's
Web was written at the request of its star, Margaret Lockwood,
whose main body of work was in films and who had never appeared
in a West End production aside from Peter Pan. In 1953, Lockwood
asked her agent, Herbert de Leon, to speak with Peter Saunders,
who was the main producer of Christie's work on the stage after
the successes of The Hollow and The Mousetrap, and see if
Christie would be interested in writing a play for her.
Saunders arranged a meeting between Christie and Lockwood at the
Mirabelle restaurant. During the conversation, Lockwood
requested that she didn't play a sinister or wicked part again
(for which she was well known) but a role in a "comedy
thriller". She also requested a part for Wi