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 Harvey-Williams - 29 April 2013

If any play has the right to call itself a British institution then it is most certainly The Mousetrap. Agatha Christie’s own deductive powers were proved wanting when the author herself predicted that the original production would probably last about 14 months but 60 years later it is still going strong at St Martin’s Theatre in London and the packed out Bristol Hippodrome tonight also attests to the continuing appeal of Christie’s classic whodunit.

Five guests struggle through a snow storm to arrive at the Metcalf’s newly opened guesthouse and it is clear that at least one of them will not be checking out again. It is a familiar scenario but on this occasion it was exactly what I expected and also hoped for. The show is as solid and classy as the beautifully designed period sitting room and so when the lights went up at the start of the performance the audience were in a world that was both familiar and strangely comforting - even in spite of an inevit...

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