On stage

Fourteen characters, a complete change of scene at half‐time, and sundry part‐changes during each Act, provide in themselves value for money in these days of economic stringency in the theatre. Throw in a typical Agatha Christie whodunit and you can really start thinking its Christmas — as it was indeed. The host of a party at which all of the main guests were, it was hinted, concealing a murky past was murdered on the sofa in his drawing room while a game of bridge was going on — thus the Cards on the Table. One of them was obviously going to be a caught card, which Gordon Jackson as a police Superintendent ultimately turned up. The settings and dresses reflected the mid‐thirties in which the play was set, providing a general atmosphere of elegance.