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Agatha Christie's
THE MOUSETRAP
  • 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.


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