The world’s longest-running play will be performed on a Prince George stage starting next week.
The first production of the 2023-24 season, Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ opens its doors next week.
“There is a group of people that have come to stay at a guest home in the countryside in Britain, and they have become aware there is a murderer stalking one of them, but they don’t know which one,” Johnna Wright, the play’s director, told media after a rehearsal.
The play, written in 1952, is still performed all over the world today.
“[Christie] really knows how to make a mystery that holds water… you are always guessing and trying to figure it out,” Wright said. “It is really fun to do… to be logic-ing out all of the characters, and what are they really doing when they say they’re doing one thing and they’re actually doing another.”
“There are people who saw it so long ago that they’ve forgotten how it ends,” laughed David Leach. who plays Mr. Paravicini in the play. “If you pay attention, I am confident you can sort it out like any good mystery.”
Leach added the show is laced with “little details” that a second-time viewer would pick up on, knowing how the play ends, something he said Wright has stressed during production.
The show will run from September 14 – October 14, you can find out more here.
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