The Mousetrap - The Diamond Anniversary Tour

Synopsis

Opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952. The World's Longest Running Play! A group of people gathered together in a remote part of the countryside discover there is a murderer in their midst. The question is which one of them is the guilty party.

Our Review:

Simon Cole - 5 November 2012

In the same year that our Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, Queen of Crime Agatha Christie’s unfathomably successful The Mousetrap debuted on the London stage. 60 years, 25,000 performances and over 400 actors later, the world’s longest run stage show is still going strong at the St Martin’s Theatre – its home since 1974, having moved from the next door Ambassadors Theatre after a mere 22 years. Now, celebrating its own diamond anniversary, The Mousetrap has embarked on what is billed as its first ever national tour, playing a neatly crafted 60 dates up and down the country.

Where the London production has largely become part of the capital’s tourist scene, surviving mainly on foreign visitors to keep it going, bringing it out to the regions will no doubt give it a huge shot in the arm, as a whole new audience gets to see this historic whodunit, which practically defined the genre on stage. At the Mayflower Southampton at least, this tour is doi...

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