Celebrating 60 years as one of the West End’s most loved shows, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has long been the world’s longest running stage production. Now, as part of its first national tour, The Mousetrap visits Worthing’s Connaught Theatre from July 14th-19th.
The famous play follows a group of people who are gathered in a country house cut off by the snow and discover that there is a murderer in their midst. One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment, the identity and the motive of the murderer are finally revealed, in typical Agatha Christie style.
The touring cast includes Michael Fenner (Doctors, Footballer’s Wives) who reprises his West End role as Mr Paravicini alongside Joanna Croll (Sirens, Doctors) as Mollie Ralston, Ellie Jacob (Misfits) as Miss Casewell, Christopher Gilling (ITV’s Law and Order, BBC1’s Silk) as Major Metcalf, Anne Kavanagh (Chichester Festival Theatre’s Goodnight Mr Tom, August: Osage County at the National Theatre) as Mrs Boyle.
The cast is completed with Henry Luxemburg (Hollyoaks, Hotel Babylon) as Giles Ralston, Ryan Saunders (Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic, The History Boys UK tour) as Christopher Wren and Jonathan Woolf (Travelling Light at the National Theatre) as Sgt Trotter.
Mousetrap Productions has licensed 60 productions of The Mousetrap world-wide to mark the diamond celebrations. The world’s longest running show will have been seen in every continent by the time the celebratory tour ends.
At the end of the play, as in the West End production, the Worthing audience will be sworn to secrecy, having become part of the exclusive group of theatregoers who know the answer to the question, “Whodunit?”
The Mousetrap plays at the Connaught Theatre, Union Place, Worthing. BN11 1LG from Monday July 14th to Saturday July 19th at 7.30pm, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm. Tickets priced at £24.50, concessions £3 off can be purchased from the box office on 01903 206 206 or online at www.worthingtheatres.co.uk.
