Pitlochry Festival Theatre has revealed that it has been selected by the estate of Agatha Christie to stage the European premiere of Agatha Christie’s ‘lost’ play, Chimneys.

Originally due to open at London’s Embassy Theatre in December 1931 - possibly with Donald Wolfit and a young Laurence Olivier in the cast - for some mysterious reason the play was never performed.

It then disappeared - it was not even listed in the Christie catalogue - for almost 70 years, until a dusty manuscript was sent anonymously to a theatre company in Canada in the mid-1990s. Authenticated by the Christie estate as the genuine article, Chimneys then received its first performance in Calgary in 2003. Unlike the Queen of Crime’s famous fictional mysteries, the reasons behind the enigmatic disappearance and reappearance of Chimneys may never be solved!