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Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 4m
Agatha Christie
A snowstorm traps a group of strangers with an unknown killer in the world’s longest running play.
Image: 2020 Court Theatre Production (Michael Brosilow)
Note: Concord Theatricals proudly licences The Mousetrap in many countries around the globe. Please note that in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, this title is unavailable for licensing while the original production continues to play in the West End.
A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.
The Great Hall at Monkswell Manor; the present.
“A still-marvelous whodunit... fiendishly fabulous... The Moustrap deserves to make a killing.” – Chicago Sun-Times
“The Mousetrap, of course, is a masterpiece of misdirection. Thriller writers are like magicians and mind readers; the best of them constantly persuade you to look in the wrong direction, to think about anything but the actual logic of the plot. Of all the stage versions of Christie’s books, The Mousetrap is by far the best, perhaps because of its genesis as a radio play. – The Chicago Tribune
“The Mousetrap is not a star vehicle; the play and its author are the stars.” – The Guardian
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