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The Mousetrap is the genre-defining murder mystery from Agatha Christie, the world’s best-selling novelist of all time. As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at Monkswell Manor, a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover – to their horror – that a killer is in their midst. One by one, the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts. Which one is the murderer? Who will be their next victim?

The 70th anniversary tour opened at the Theatre Royal Nottingham, where it held its original world premiere in 1952. The iconic thriller is now visiting over 70 venues across the country, including all cities to which it originally played 70 years ago, plus many more.

This 70th Anniversary tour marks the first of many ways that The Mousetrap will be celebrating its extraordinary milestone year.

In the truly ensemble piece where everyone is a suspect Todd Carty (EastEnders, Grange Hill, Dancing on Ice) plays Major Metcalf, Hollie Sullivan (Barefoot in the Park (Vienna’s English Theatre) will appear as Mollie Ralston, Barnaby Jago (Shakuntala Devi Human Computer -Sony) as Giles Ralston, Shaun McCourt (Blood Brothers UK Tour, War Horse) as Christopher Wren, Judith Rae (Switzerland -Ambassadors Theatre, West End) as Mrs Boyle, Amy Spinks (Shakespeare Nation -RSC) as Miss Casewell, Steven Elliott (The Crown, Holby City) as Mr Paravicini and Michael Ayiotis (Salty in John Godber’s Teechers ’23 (UK Tour) as Detective Sgt. Trotter. This casting is for 2023 venues.

The 70th Anniversary tour of The Mousetrap continues to visit towns and cities around the country finishing on 3rd August 2024 in Windsor Theatre Royal. 

Following its 1952 premiere touring production, The Mousetrap opened in the West End where still to this day, it continues its record-breaking engagement at the St Martin’s Theatre having been performed there over 29,500 times, selling over 10 million tickets.

Cast and Creative

Hollie Sullivan

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

Theatre credits include:  Barefoot in the Park (Vienna’s English Theatre) ; Private Lives (Vienna’s English Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vienna’s English Theatre); Barefoot in the Park (The Mill at Sonning); Sam Wanamaker Festival 2016 (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Festival-Neuss).

Film and Television credits include:  Waking The Dead (BBC); A Second Son (Amazon Prime Video).

Other credits include: Doctor Who – The Middle (Big Finish Productions); The Surveyor (Web series).

Barnaby Jago

Training: Arts Ed

Film & Television Credits include: Shakuntala Devi Human Computer (Sony), The Beast of Blue Yonder

Other credits include: Barnaby has narrated numerous audiobooks and audio dramas including The Iron Chariot by Stein Riverton Albie in Doctor Who Albie’s Angels.

Shaun McCourt

Training: Guildford school of Acting.

Theatre credits include:  The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe  (Gillian Lynne Theatre and UK Tour);  The Windsors: Endgame  (Prince of Wales Theatre);  Blood Brothers  (UK Tour);  War Horse  (New LondonTheatre);  The Railway Children  (Kings Cross Theatre);  Imagine This  (Union Theatre);  Iolanthe  (Wilton’sMusic Hall);  The Pirates of Penzance  (Kilworth House);  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  (UKTour); and  Bernstein’s Mass  (Royal Festival Hall).

Workshops include: The Grinning Man  (NTStudios);  I Capture the Castle  (NT Studios);  The Attic  (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

Training: Mountview Theatre School (Postgraduate Diploma Acting); Cardiff University (PG Diploma - Theatre Studies).

Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (UK Tour); Switzerland (Ambassadors Theatre, West End); Lear (Valley of the Rocks, Exmoor); The Importance of Being Earnest (UK Tour); Deathtrap (UK Tour); A Room With a View (Bath Theatre Royal); And Then There Were None (UK Tour); La Bohème (Royal Albert Hall); Birds of a Feather (UK Tour); Duet for One (UK Tour); L ess Than Kind (UK Tour); S easons Greetings (UK Tour); H ouse of Ghosts (UK Tour); W omen on the Verge of HRT (UK Tour); P rivate Lives (UK Tour); T he Clean House (UK Tour); B edroom Farce (UK Tour); S trangers on a Train (UK Tour); M arrying the Mistress (UK Tour); Arsenic & Old Lace (UK Tour); T he Shell Seekers (UK Tour); M y Boy Jack (Yvonne Arnaud & UK Tour) and Corpse! (UK Tour).

Todd began his career at the age of four. He made his stage debut at the New London Theatre, where he played the leading role in the musical based on Lionel Bart’s life. As Tucker in the BBC’s  Grange Hill , Todd became an overnight success leading to his own series  Tucker’s Luck . He is also known for his roles of Mark Fowler in  EastEnders  (BBC) and of PC Gabriel Kent in  The Bill  (Talkback/Thames). 

Theatre credits include: Patsy in  Spamalot  (West End and UK Tour) and Detective Inspector Hallett in  The Business of Murder  (UK Tour). Film and Television credits include: Oswyn in  Krull  (Columbia Pictures); Angus in  Professor Poppers   Problems  (CFF Films); Randy Candy in  The Candy Show  (Beaconsfield Films); Mike in  Birches  (True Films); Dan in  The Drive  (Ninja Penguin Productions); As himself in  A Touch of Cloth  (SKY TV); Ray Hallam in  Heartbeat  (ITV); Cameron Cooke in  Holby City  (BBC); Pentecost in  The Black Velvet Band  (Yorkshire TV). Todd was also the subject of  This Is Your Life  (BBC) in 2000.

Other credits include:  Dancing On Ice  (ITV);  Masterchef  (BBC);  Mastermind  (BBC);  Dangerous Adventures For Boys  (C5 which he won with his eldest son James);C elebrity Driving Academy  (BBC with his youngest sonThomas). Directed feature film  The Perfect Burger  (BYFA) and several episodes of  Doctors  (BBC).

Todd has provided narration for numerous televisionprogrammes including  Paddington Green  (BBC),  Driving Mum Crazy  (Meridian TV) and  Scene in New York  (BBC).

Training: Arts Educational Schools, London.

Theatre credits include: Shakespeare Nation (RSC), Bab’s Big Show (Museum of Comedy), Comedy Swingers (Vault Festival), Come On (Arcola Theatre), A Guide to Second Date Sex (Bread and Roses Theatre) and Scarlett Lane Edinburgh Fringe).

Television credits include: Laugh Lessons (BBC 3), Lala’s Ladiez (ZeeTV & Endemol Shine). 

Film credits include: Mark (MOWL), Peeler, Lifeguards (Burning Reel), BaiL (Franklyn Lane Films), Sticky (Vitamin Films).

Other credits: BBC New Comedy Awards (BBC Radio 4), Tits Up (web-series).

Amy is part of the sketch duo BAB who won the Funny Women comedy short Award 2023, presented by Jo Brand and were semi-finalists of Leicester Square Theatre’s Sketch Off! 2022. 

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Steven Elliot

Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. 

Theatre credits include: Frankenstein (Danny Boyle, National Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre); The Ladykillers (UK tour); Dancing at Lughnasa (Abbey Theatre, Dublin);

Productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company include: Twelfth Night, Henry V, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Jew of Malta, The Bite of the Night, A Christmas Carol, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Pentecost .

Productions with Theatre Clywd include: Macbeth, Arcadia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off, The Suicide, Two Princes, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, A Chorus of Disapproval, Jumpy, and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Television credits include: The Crown ; Holby City ; Da Vinci’s Demons ; Judge John Deed; Mike Bassett – Manager; Inspector Morse; Ghostboat; Dal y Melt; Porthpenwaig; Tess of the D’Urbevilles; Crash; Tunnel of Love; War Gamers .

Film credits include: Warchief ; Roald and Beatrix ; Y Swyn; Cold Earth; Time Bandits; Hamlet; Les Miserables; Rise of the Appliances; The Watcher in the Woods; King Lear, True West and Frankenstein (NT Live). 

Steven is an Associate Learning Practitioner for the RSC and Associate Artist at Theatre Clwyd.

Michael Ayiotis

Theatre credits include: Salty in John Godber’s Teechers ’23 (UK Tour), Arthur in The Sun, The Mountain and Me (Union Theatre), Pickle in Sleeping Beauty , Silly Billy in Jack and the Beanstalk , Buttons in Cinderella , Abanazar in Aladdin and Dick Whittington in Dick Whittington (all at South Hill Park Arts Centre), Achilles in Wrath of Achilles (Bedivere Arts), Market Boy (Union Theatre), Timms in The History Boys (London Contemporary Theatre) .

Television and Film credits include : Breaking the Band: Black Sabbath (ITV), Raymond’s Five (Short), Grass Roots (Short) and The Pains of Youth (Short).

Other credits include: EE Mobile (Television).

Jack George

Training: Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company

Theatre credits include: The Art of Saying Goodbye (VAULT Festival), Titus Andronicus (Fourth Monkey), Days of Significance (Fourth Monkey), Appropriate (Fourth Monkey).

Other credits include: Exploited II (Pukka Films).

Jonathan Mathews

Training: The Oxford School of Drama.

Theatre Credits include: White Fang (Park Theatre), Alice's Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles), The Bunker Trilogy (Jethro Compton Productions), Much Ado About Nothing (New Wimbledon Theatre) and Fawlty Towers the Dining Experience (ITI).

Matthew Newton

Training: London College of Music and The Salon: Collective.

Theatre Credits include: The Brothers Karamazov  as Alyosha (King’s Head Theatre) and Thomas Becket in T.S. Eliot’s verse drama, Murder in the Cathedral .

Television credits include: London Class  (MBC).

Matthew is also a conductor and choir master, and as well as the piano and organ, he plays the viola with a number of orchestras around London.

Helen Percival

Training: RADA

Theatre credits include: The Last Time I Saw Caileigh (Brooklyn Art Haus Theatre), Type on Paper (Tabard Theatre), Communicate (Sheepish Productions), Northanger Abbey (Cyphers Theatre Company), Hillary’s Kitchen (Edinburgh Fringe) 

Television credits include: Martha Gellhorn in The Secret History of WW2

Helen is also a spoken word poet and in 2023 wrote and performed her first one woman show called Phoenix.

Hilary Derrett

Hilary trained at the Laban Centre.

Theatre includes: Gunhild Borkman (understudy) in John Gabriel Borkman (The Bridge Theatre, Londobn); Mary Highland/Janet Oram (understudy) in The Southbury Child (Chichester Festival Theatre); Mrs Boyle (understudy) in The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre, London); Sheila Carter in Relatively Speaking (Shrewsbury); Laura Stratton in Time of my Life (Brockley Jack Theatre, London); Gerlinde/Kate in Where Will We Live (Southwark Playhouse, London); Duchess of Gloucester in Play of Thrones (Union Theatre, London); Jean Perkins in Funny Money (Vienna English Theatre); Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (tour); Jacques in As You Like It (tour); Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (Bamberg Staat Theater, Germany).

TV includes: Margaret Nicholson in The History of Bedlam (History Channel); Rose West & Amelia Dyer in Martina Cole’s Ladykillers (ITV).

Radio includes: Librarian in Charlotte & Lillian (Radio 4); Janet Braid in Coward’s Peace in Our Time (Digital Drama); Alex in Fugitive Pieces (Radio 3); Kirsten in Dangerous Influences (Radio 4).

Recent Film:

Zoey in Joshua and Zoey ; Charlotte in The Estate Agent ; Old Lady/Doctor in Tales from Pussy Willow (animation).

Creative Team

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature.

Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six rejections, but this changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.

Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her her works come third in the rankings of the world’s most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare’s works and the Bible. The Mousetrap holds the world record for longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952, and is still running after more than 27,500 performances.

IAN TALBOT O.B.E

Ian was Artistic and Managing Director of The Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park from 1987 until 2007. For Regent’s Park he directed  Babes In Arms ;  The Fantasticks ;  Lady Be Good ;  The Card ;  Kiss Me, Kate ;  A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To  The Forum ;  Oh, What A Lovely War ;  H.M.S. Pinafore (all nominated for Olivier Awards);  The Pirates Of Penzance  (Olivier nomination for best director 2000);  Much  Ado About Nothing ;  Androcles and the  Lion ;  Look Here Old Son ;  The Two  Gentlemen Of Verona ;  Twelfth Night ;  A  Midsummer Night’s Dream ;  A Connecticut  Yankee ;  The Comedy Of Errors ;  Paint Your  Wagon ;  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ;  The  Music Man ;  Where’s Charley? ;  Camelot  and  The Boyfriend .

His other directing credits include: The Secret Garden (Watermill Theatre; Newbury);  Yeoman Of The Guard  (Savoy Theatre);  Peter Pan  (Royal Festival Hall);  High Society  (Shaftesbury Theatre and national tour);  The Pirates Of Penzance  (West Yorkshire Playhouse and national tour);  Anything Goes  (national tour);  Kiss Me; Kate  (Brisbane Festival);  Lend Me A Tenor The Musical  (Gielgud Theatre);  Doctor In The House  (national tour);  The Invisible Man  and  Charlie’s Aunt  (The Menier Chocolate Factory);  Love Letters  (Dubai Festival);  Third Finger Left Hand  (Trafalgar Studios);  A Midsummer Night’s Dream  (The Old Globe; San Diego);  Million Dollar Quartet  (national tour);  Eugenius  (The Other Palace);  The Mousetrap  (St. Martins Theatre);  Priscilla Queen of the Desert  (national tour);  White Christmas  (national tour) and many overseas tours and pantomimes.

DENISE SILVEY

Denise trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career as an actress and singer working in the West End, film, television, and radio. She began her relationship with  The Mousetrap  by playing Miss Casewell in 1994 and then again in 2001. She became Production Supervisor for the show in 2009 and then Artistic Director in 2018. She has cast every West End production since 2009, tours since 2015 and has cast and directed productions in China, the Far East and India.

Other production and casting credits include : Cinderella  and  Jack and the Beanstalk  (feature films),  Bloody Difficult Women  (Riverside Studios),  The Pargetter Triptych  (podcast),  Musik  (Edinburgh and West End),  The Dame  (Park Theatre and National Tour),  Dead Sheep  (Park Theatre and National Tour),  An Audience with Jimmy Saville  (Park Theatre and Edinburgh),  The Roundabout  (Park Theatre and New York),  Twitstorm, Deny Deny Deny  and  Twilight Song  (Park Theatre),  Alex Salmond Unleashed  (Edinburgh and National Tour),  Once Seen on Blue Peter  (Edinburgh Festival),  All or Nothing  (Arts and Ambassadors Theatre),  Don’t Call Me Nigel  (National Tour),  The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber  (National Tour),  The Watcher  (Waterloo East Theatre),  The Translucent Frogs of Quuup  (Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Theatre, Kings Head),  Burton ,  Clown in the Moon,   Wilde Without the Boy  (Edinburgh and St James’s Theatre),  The Man Called Monkhouse  (National Tour),  Starting Here, Starting Now  (Jermyn Street Theatre).

She is also a recipient of both Stage One Bursary and Start Up Fund for producers and is a member of UK Theatre and the League of Independent Producers.

ADAM SPIEGEL

Over the past 25 years, Adam Spiegel has produced extensively in London’s West End as well as various tours throughout the UK and internationally. Most recently Adam has taken over as producer of the world’s longest running show  The Mousetrap  (St Martin’s Theatre), upholding its prestigious legacy within the West End.

West End credits include:  Motown The Musical  (Shaftesbury Theatre);  The Last Tango  (Phoenix Theatre);  Hairspray  (Shaftesbury Theatre);  Fame  (Aldwych Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre);  Sister Act  (London Palladium);  Saturday Night Fever  (Apollo Victoria);  High School   Musical – Live on Stage!  (Hammersmith Apollo);  Midnight Tango  (Aldwych Theatre, Phoenix Theatre);  Dance ‘Til Dawn  (Aldwych Theatre);  Love Story  (Duchess Theatre);  Crazy for You  (Novello Theatre);  The Mysteries  (Queen’s Theatre) and  Birdy  (Comedy Theatre).

UK touring credits include: Motown the Musical (2018);  Fat Friends the Musical  (2017);  Tango Moderno (2017); Shirley Valentine  (2017);  The Mousetrap  60th anniversary tour (2012–2016);  To Kill a Mockingbird  (2014 and 2015);  Love Me Tender  (2015) The Producers  (2015);  Fame ;  Saturday Night Fever ;  The Last Tango  (2015-2016);  Dance ‘Til Dawn  (2014 and 2015);  Midnight Tango  (2011, 2012 and 2013);  Strictly Come   Dancing Live ;  High School Musical – Live on Stage!; High School   Musical 2 ; the Creole Choir of Cuba;  The Mysteries ;  Lady Salsa  and  Five Guys Named   Moe .

International touring credits include:  Saturday   Night Fever  (Australasian and Scandinavian tours);  Fame  (Scandinavian and US tours) and the Creole Choir of Cuba (worldwide).

Other theatre credits include:  To Kill a Mockingbird  (Barbican Theatre);  Amadeus  (Wilton’s Music Hall, London);  Lady Salsa  (Pleasance Theatre) and  Promises, Promises  (Sheffield Theatres).

Adam produced the annual Laurence Olivier Awards for the Society of London Theatre for five years running from 2004 to 2008. Adam has also previously acted as an arts consultant for both  The Sunday Times  and Tate Britain. Adam now sits on the board of SOLT and the League of Independent Producers.

SIR STEPHEN WALEY-COHEN

Sir Stephen has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was Joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group which acquired and managed the Albery, Criterion, Donmar Warehouse, Piccadilly, Whitehall and Wyndham’s Theatre, as well as developing the first British owned multiplex cinemas. Maybox was sold in 1989, in which year he became Director of the Victoria Palace Theatre but sold it to Cameron Mackintosh in 2014. Sir Stephen became the Producer of  The Mousetrap  in 1994. Since then he has also taken on the management of the St Martin’s Theatre as well as the Vaudeville from 1995 – 2002 and the Savoy from 1997 – 2005. In April 2007 Sir Stephen purchased the Ambassadors Theatre, the sister theatre to the St.Martin’s and the original home of  The Mousetrap  for the first 21 years of its run. Before entering the theatre business Sir Stephen was a financial journalist and a founder director of Euromoney Publications. Sir Stephen was President of the Society of London Theatre from 2002 to 2005; and he was a Trustee of The Theatres Trust 1998 – 2004. In 2007 Sir Stephen became Chairman of RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

He founded Mousetrap Theatre Projects in 1996 which each year takes thousands of young people, who would not otherwise have the opportunity, to the best of West End Theatre, and is the industry’s leading education charity.

SIR PETER SAUNDERS

Peter Saunders’ first job was as a very junior assistant cameraman. He graduated to cameraman and film director. He then produced his own films and lost all his money. He worked as a reporter on the Daily Express for four years; then as press agent to bandleader Harry Roy. He joined the army when war broke out, rising from private to captain. He jumped in at the deep end and put on his first play in 1947. He then produced more than 150 shows all over the world including the world record breaking  The Mousetrap . In 1981 he was knighted for his services to the theatre. In April 1994 he transferred the management of  The Mousetrap  to Mousetrap Productions run by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen. Sir Peter’s hobbies included chess, photography, the music of George Gershwin, telephoning, and collecting wills. He was married to Katie Boyle.

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New cast join THE MOUSETRAP 70th anniversary tour

NEW CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE 70 TH  ANNIVERSARY TOUR OF

THE MOUSETRAP

THE WORLD’S LONGEST RUNNING PLAY

Agatha Christie’s iconic thriller continues to tour the UK and Ireland throughout 2024

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New casting is announced for the 70 th  Anniversary tour of  The Mousetrap , the longest running play in the world, which continues to enthrall audiences throughout the UK and Ireland.

From 30 January 2024, the cast of the iconic murder-mystery on tour will include  Todd Carty  ( EastEnders, Grange Hill, Dancing on Ice ) who continues to play Major Metcalf and  Gwyneth Strong  (known for playing Cassandra in  Only Fools and Horses ) as Mrs. Boyle.

They will be joined by Neerja Naik  as Mollie Ralston,  Barnaby Jago  as Giles Ralston,  Shaun McCourt  as Christopher Wren,  Amy Spinks  as Miss Casewell,  Steven Elliot  as Mr. Paravicini, and  Michael Ayiotis  as Detective Sgt. Trotter.

Genre-defining murder mystery  The Mousetrap , written by Agatha Christie, the world’s best-selling novelist of all time, premiered at Theatre Royal Nottingham in 1952 and toured the UK before opening in the West End where it continues its record-breaking engagement at the St Martin’s Theatre, over 70 years on. The iconic thriller’s 70 th  Anniversary tour also opened in Nottingham in September 2022, and continues to travel throughout the UK and Ireland, marking its milestone anniversary by visiting over 70 theatres, including all cities to which it originally played 70 years ago, plus many more.

A full tour schedule, further information, theatre listings and ticket purchase through the website  MousetrapOnTour.co.uk

As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at Monkswell Manor, a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover – to their horror – that a killer is in their midst. One by one, the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts. Which one is the murderer? Who will be their next victim?

The Mousetrap is produced by Adam Spiegel with Direction by Ian Talbot OBE and Denise Silvey.

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Currently touring until 3 August 2024

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the world's longest-running play and is now on tour across the UK direct from the West End.

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The world’s longest running play, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is the genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time.

As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover – to their horror – that a killer is in their midst! Which one is the murderer? Who will be their next victim? Can you solve this world-famous mystery for yourself?

Meet The Mousetrap tour cast

Currently on the tour at select venues is Todd Carty (EastEnders) in the role of Major Metcalf with Gwyneth Strong (Only Fools and Horses) as Mrs Boyle. Check venue website for exact casting.

They are joined by Steven Elliott as Mr Paravicini, Neerja Naik as Mollie Ralston, Barnaby Jago as Giles Ralston, Michael Ayiotis as Detective Sgt Trotter, Shaun McCourt as Christopher Wren and Amy Spinks as Miss Casewell.

Jack George, Jonathan Mathews, Matthew Newton, Judith Rae and Hollie Sullivan complete the cast as understudies.

The production is directed by Ian Talbot

About the show

Age recommendation and guidance: Suitable for ages 7+

Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes (including 20 minute interval)

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Agatha Christie’s THE MOUSETRAP is the world’s most successful and longest-running play. Since opening in London’s West End in 1952, this classic murder mystery has had millions of theatregoers on the edge of their seats.

In 2022, THE MOUSETRAP will celebrate an astonishing 70 YEARS onstage. To mark the occasion, we are inviting the world’s most esteemed theatres and producers to join us in an epic global event.

We will be licensing 70 productions of THE MOUSETRAP in countries across the globe, in as many languages as possible, as part of our 70th Anniversary Season.

the London production has provided an exceptional benchmark for the universal magic of well-crafted live theatre. We now invite you to be part of this amazing legacy by presenting your own production of THE MOUSETRAP, envisioned and brought to life by the extraordinary local artists who light up your stages.

Agatha Christie is the world’s best-selling novelist of all time, with an estimated 2 billion books sold. Besides having written the world’s longest-running play, she is also the only female playwright to have ever had three plays running simultaneously in London’s West End. Her books and plays have been adapted into countless TV series and award-winning films including Death on the Nile, which returns later this year in a remake starring Kenneth Branagh and Annette Bening.

And yet over the years, THE MOUSETRAP has become more than just a play. It has evolved into a can’t-miss destination for visitors from every corner of the globe, a joyful rite of passage for theatregoers of all kinds, and an enduring family tradition shared across generations.

Perhaps the reason THE MOUSETRAP appeals to a wide range of audiences and age groups lies in its clever dramatic formula. The iconic set-up, which has inspired countless other murder mysteries, puts audience members in the position of not just passive observers, but active participants.

Nothing’s quite as fun as playing detective from your seat, knowing every colourful character is a suspect, and trying to piece it all together yourself in real time. It’s deceptively simple… and simply genius!

our 70th Anniversary Season, you’ll not only be celebrating THE MOUSETRAP’s incredible journey — you’ll be taking your place in theatre history. And in doing so, you’ll become an integral part of the global theatre community’s bright, connected future. 

with any questions or to discuss licensing please contact your local agent in your territory

On behalf of the entire team, thank you for reading, and we look forward to welcoming you to the wonderful world of Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, 
THE MOUSETRAP.

Adam Spiegel, Producer

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The Mousetrap is the genre-defining murder mystery from Agatha Christie, the world's best-selling novelist of all time. The show has been performed over 28,915 times in London and has been seen by over 10 million people. New York audiences will be able to see and hear some of the original sights and sounds from the production as it has appeared in London since 1952.

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Theatre promotion, review: the mousetrap (touring) royal & derngate. northampton.

As the longest running play in the world; it can be extremely difficult to review The Mousetrap with any new insight which has not already been shared before.  It is even more difficult to bring a fresh and inspired performance to such a timeless classic. However, that is exactly what the new cast of the 70 th Anniversary Tour of The Mousetrap have accomplished.

There’s rippled excitement tonight at the Royal and Derngate in Northampton for this touring production of The Mousetrap . It is currently on a seven month tour of the UK and I am unsure what to expect.  I may be one of the only people left in the UK who does not know the identity of the culprit in this eponymous murder mystery.

To confirm my suspicions, I ask some of the guests within the sold-out Derngate if they know the secret and am pleasantly surprised to find out that very few people even know the story.  The Mousetrap , it seems, like a Dickens novel, is a play that everyone has heard of, but few have experienced.

The play has a tradition that is beautifully upheld by the final curtain when the audience are invited into the fold as members of the club that now know the secret but should keep it under lock and key .

The play itself is introduced by the revealing of the long red velvet curtains of the main stage which open slowly to reveal a ravishing set showcasing the drawing room of Monkswell Manor Guest House, complete with roaring fire to ward off the snowdrifts outside and oak panelling throughout.   An off-centre scattering of furniture gives the cast ample room to manoeuvre around the set and makes all of the interactions look natural.  It’s  the perfect scene for the inevitable, Agatha Christie hallmark, murder.

To the credit of the design team, they have produced a wonderful set which provides six entrances and exits which are used at such dizzying speed that the audience are never quite sure of who has gone where and when which adds to the intrigue.  Cast members enter and exit with believability and we truly are witnessing a collection of guests thrown together.   

We are first introduced to the guest house proprietors Mollie and Giles Ralston, played by Neerja Naik and Barnaby Jago.  The husband-and-wife couple enter with the intent of hiding something from the other arousing the audience’ suspicions immediately.   Naik, in her role as empathetic hostess, is dazzling but as the plot develops she quietly asserts strength and resolve; a truly wonderful performance.

One by one other guests arrive beginning with the hyperactive Christopher Wren played superbly by Shaun McCourt. McCourt lavishes in the comedic relief and camp flourishes of his character.  Next to enter is acerbic Mrs Boyle, who to much audience nostalgia is played by Gwyneth Strong.  Strong plays the hawk-like Boyle with an understated malice, irritated by everything and everyone in the room.

We are then treated to the arrival of Todd Carty as the blustering Major Metcalf who acts as a foil to the negativity of Boyle, his relentless optimism always on display. 

Lastly, the guest list is completed by the two stand-out performances.  Amy Spinks enters as Miss Casewell.  Spinks imbues the masculine, direct speaking Casewell with the spirit of Amelia Earhart.  Despite having fewer lines, she makes the absolute most of the role. Her pace of delivery and sharp responses are a welcome relief from some of the longer pauses within the play.

Finally, we are treated to the scene-stealing Steven Elliott who musters all of his prestigious stage experience to win the crowd with every line as Mr Paracivini.  His measured cadence reveals an actor positively enjoying himself.  Paracivini doubles as both comic relief, sharing the inner thoughts of the audience with a knowing wink and also heightening the tension by reminding both the cast and audience that danger is afoot at every door and hallway.  It is not unfair to say that each line delivered by Elliott has the crowd tittering in mirth or edging forward in their seats.   In Elliot we have an  actor at the top of his craft playing this audience like a fiddle.

However, whilst the guest list is complete, the cast is not.  A final character, detective Sgt Trotter, played by the confident Michael Ayiotis completes the stage line-up.  Ayiotis admirably opts for a more energetic form of investigating detective.  The anti-Poirot, he moves energetically around the set interrogating the suspects, lambasting others and perceiving others with open, naked suspicion.

It has to be said, the whole cast are wonderful together with a lot of energy and, especially for an opening night, the quality on display is evident.

However, as all opening nights, some small technical issues do slightly mar the experience including a missing sound cue for the wireless radio and telephone but these are quickly rectified for the second act.

The direction, dual-handed by both Ian Talbot and Denise Silvey is very good and, despite the dozens of exit and entrances by actors we are never totally lost as an audience; merely unaware of exactly who might be responsible for the murder since all characters have the opportunity to traverse the set.   However, the final act suffers from some very minor issues including a character’s insistence on using their downstage hand whilst holding a weapon leading to a covering of the face and blocking their own lines.

Overall, all, this version of The Mousetrap is a marvellous testament to the original The Mousetrap , a production that Christie herself did not think would last beyond eight months. The cast perform with style and deserve all the applause for continuing a theatre tradition with a fresh, enjoyable and thoroughly entertaining show. 

The Royal and Derngate , is now under the stewardship of new Creative Director, Jesse Jones, and its investment in quality touring work, like The Mousetrap , demonstrates its ongoing significance as a regional theatre of importance.

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Dear Mr. Feeney,

We saw this production and the exact same cast in Belfast last week, and I was thus very interested to read your review. I think you have done a truly excellent job and it would be remiss of me indeed to fail to offer comment. Crisp, articulate and embodying an enjoyable level of detail, reviews in my experience don’t come any better than this. Congratulations and good work my dear fellow.

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As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover – to their horror – that a killer is in their midst! Which one is the murderer? Who will be their next victim? Can you solve this world-famous mystery for yourself?

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MOSCOW, Idaho — While working under Erika Rader, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences  at University of Idaho, a postdoctoral researcher identified a volcanic vent on Mars as a potential spatter cone and compared it to a spatter cone formed during the 2021 eruption of Fagradalsfjall in Iceland.

Through a detailed morphological investigation and ballistic modeling, Ian T.W. Flynn discovered the Martian volcanic feature strongly resembles spatter cones found on Earth.

“Spatter cones are so common on Earth that it seemed extremely unlikely that they simply didn’t exist on Mars,” Rader said. “Since spatter cones can only form in the right conditions, their presence gives us a benchmark to shoot for when simulating Martian volcanoes.”

Spatter cones are created by hot lumps of flying lava falling to the surface during explosive volcanic eruptions, specifically during sustained periods of lava fountaining. They are found in many places on Earth — including in Idaho, most notably at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve — and have long been suspected to be on Mars as well. However, until now, there wasn’t solid evidence of their existence.

“The similarity between the Mars and Icelandic spatter cones indicates that the eruption dynamics occurring in Iceland, over the last several years, also occurred on Mars,” Flynn said. “This is exciting as it expands the range of volcanic eruption styles possible on Mars.”

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“We are thrilled about this discovery because it fills a distinct observational gap in Martian volcanology, and it lays the groundwork for future investigations of spatter features on Mars,” Flynn said.

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