David Suchet is impeccable as always as Poirot, and Zoe Wannamaker is fine as Ariadne Oliver. The adaptation starts off so well, and had such good promise- the episode is beautifully shot throughout with lavish costumes, and I had little problem with the performances. Wanamaker has featured in a version of every novel in which Mrs Oliver and Poirot join forces, concluding with Elephants Can Remember and Dead Man's Folly, both of which were adapted in the final series in 2013.Cards on The Table, while not Agatha Christie's best, is a very well crafted book, and quite complex and entirely involving.
However the most recent example is Zoë Wanamaker who played Mrs Oliver since her debut in 2005's Cards on the Table, in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot. In the 1990s, BBC Radio 4 cast Julia McKenzie (later to be known for playing Miss Marple) in the role of Mrs Oliver, alongside John Moffatt as Poirot. AdaptationsĪriadne Oliver was portrayed on screen by Jean Stapleton in the 1986 adaptation of Dead Man’s Folly. Christie always took a somewhat tongue in cheek approach to her supposed fictional alter ego, who she credited with writing a novel called The Body in the Library, a title she would use herself in 1942. In a 1956 interview with John Bull magazine, Agatha Christie dismissed the idea that any of her characters are truly derived from real life, although she did admit that Mrs Oliver has "a strong dash" of herself. She is, in many ways, a vehicle for Agatha Christie’s own voice, particularly in relation to writing and the public. She finally appears on her own in The Pale Horse. Her first appearance in a full length novel, with Poirot, is in Cards on the Table. Ariadne Oliver and Hercule PoirotĪriadne Oliver appears in six Poirot novels, assisting him (often in Hastings' stead) by providing her own unique perspective on each of the crimes they encounter. Sven Hjerson loves crudités, cold winter baths and solving murder mysteries. "Of course he’s idiotic," Mrs Oliver says, "but people like him", a sentiment Christie often applied to her own Hercule Poirot.
Mrs Oliver also has a pedantic detective, a Finnish man by the name of Sven Hjerson. She is feisty, quick to jump to conclusions (sometimes right, sometimes wrong), and strongly believes that Scotland Yard would be better run by a woman. Mrs Oliver is a middle-aged woman and successful detective novelist, described as "handsome in a rather untidy fashion, with fine eyes, substantial shoulders, and a large quantity of rebellious grey hair with which she was continuously experimenting".
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