- October 23 - November 8
- Wednesday - Saturday 7:30pm
- Sunday Matinee 2:00pm
- Auditions: September 8 & 9, 7:00pm
- Cast Requirements: 5 men, 3 women
DAME AGATHA MARY CLARISSA, Lady Mallowan, DBE (1890-1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, is one of the world's best-known
mystery writers. She is best remembered for her 80 novels and short story collections and over one dozen
plays. Her works, featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of
Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre. This
play, "The Mousetrap", holds the record for the longest initial run in the world, opening at the
Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952, and as of 2008 is still running after more than 20,000 performances.
A group of strangers are stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm. One is a murderer, another, a victim. The
suspects include the newlyweds who run the house, 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. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern,
the officer probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons.