Some interesting bits and pieces:
It is over 60 years since it opened, the first performance was 25 November 1952.
The West end production has had over 25,000 performances.
Remarkably it broke the record for the longest run of a play in the West End way back in September 1957.
The original cast included Richard Attenborough. there have been too many famous actors to name but Kiwi Alice Fraser was Mollie in the 21st year of the play (1978).
Up until 2010 outside of the West End, only one version of the play could be performed annually.
Agatha Christie thought it might run as long as 14 months. It was originally a short story then a radio play.
Each year the cast of the West End production has changes but by tradition at least one actor stays on each time.
Canterbury Repertory was to have produced the first NZ production in 2010- but the earthquakes mean this will be the 7th production.
Tom Stoppard's play The Real Inspector Hound parodies many elements of The Mousetrap, including the surprise ending- I've directed Hound and the connections are interesting.
It is over 60 years since it opened, the first performance was 25 November 1952.
The West end production has had over 25,000 performances.
Remarkably it broke the record for the longest run of a play in the West End way back in September 1957.
The original cast included Richard Attenborough. there have been too many famous actors to name but Kiwi Alice Fraser was Mollie in the 21st year of the play (1978).
Up until 2010 outside of the West End, only one version of the play could be performed annually.
Agatha Christie thought it might run as long as 14 months. It was originally a short story then a radio play.
Each year the cast of the West End production has changes but by tradition at least one actor stays on each time.
Canterbury Repertory was to have produced the first NZ production in 2010- but the earthquakes mean this will be the 7th production.
Tom Stoppard's play The Real Inspector Hound parodies many elements of The Mousetrap, including the surprise ending- I've directed Hound and the connections are interesting.
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