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Crossroads Live - The Mousetrap
Thu, 15th to 24th June

The Mousetrap

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta

Presented by Crossroads Live
This thrilling West End production is THE genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time case closed! Don't just see it. Solve it.

Ended on Thursday, 15 June 2023

The Mousetrap is supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.

As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover - to their horror - that a killer is in their midst! One by one, the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts. Which one is the murderer? Who will be their next victim? Can you solve this world-famous mystery for yourself?

The longest-running West End show, it has by far the longest run of any play anywhere in the world, with over 28,500 performances so far.
The play has a twist ending, which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre.

Agatha Christie originally wrote the story as a short radio play entitled Three Blind Mice, which was broadcast in 1947 as a birthday present for Queen Mary.
She eventually adapted the work into a short story before again rewriting it for the stage as The Mousetrap. Ironically, Christie did not expect the play to run for more than a few months and stipulated that no film of The Mousetrap be made until at least six months after the West End Production closed. 70 years on, as the show continues its historic London run, a film adaptation looks unlikely at this stage.

After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm.
It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running 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. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate. This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from the foremost mystery writer of all time.

For 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people from every corner of the globe on the edge of their seats.
It is the genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time case closed! Can you solve this world-famous mystery for yourself?.


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The Mousetrap is supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.


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Consider yourself a budding sleuth? Here are three questions for you to solve. What's the world's longest-running play? Who wrote it? Where's it heading this year?
The answers: The Mousetrap, the one and only Agatha Christie, and Australia — Sydney to be exact.
Initially premiering in London's West End in 1952, it's been treading the boards in the UK ever since, only pausing during to pandemic venue closures. When theatres reopened in Britain, so did the show.

concreteplayground.com/sy..-murder-mystery-australia.
Monday, 18 July 2022 by Gerard D | Coast Box Office
The cast for the 70th Anniversary Australian production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has been revealed by producer John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia. Additional seasons have also been announced to follow the Premiere at Theatre Royal Sydney - in Brisbane at the Playhouse, QPAC from 3 November, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne from 31 December and at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne from 17 February 2023.

www.stagewhispers.com.au/..nd-extra-cities-announced.
Monday, 5 September 2022 by Gerard D | Coast Box Office

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