NEXT WEEK: Catch the world’s longest running theatre show live in Bristol

NEXT WEEK: Catch the world’s longest running theatre show live in Bristol

Posted on: 17 Jul 2023

Having run at the West End for 70 years straight, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is heading around the UK for an anniversary tour you’d be foolish to miss.

 

The Mousetrap will run at The Bristol Hippodrome from Monday 24 to Saturday 29 July 2023.

 

Regarded throughout the world as THE genre-defying murder mystery from THE best-selling novelist of all time, the cast of this touring production features Todd Carty (Eastenders, Grande Hill, Dancing On Ice) as Major Metcalf and Casualty star Catherine Shipton as Mrs Boyle.

 

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As news spreads of an in London, we are introduced to seven strangers snowed in at Monkswell Manor, a remote countryside guesthouse. When a policeman arrives, the guests realise – to their horror – that a murderer is amongst them.

 

One by one, the trapped suspects reveal their mysterious pasts. Who is the murderer? Who will be their next victim? How has it remained a mystery for 70 years? Find out theatre’s best-kept secret at The Bristol Hippodrome next week.

 

Todd Carty and Catherine Shipton will be joined by Rachel Dawson (Gillian Lynn Theatre’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) as Mollie Ralston, Michael Lyle (Amedeus at National Theatre) as Giles Ralston and Shaun McCourt (War Horse at the National Theatre) as Christopher Wren.

 

Also in the cast is Leigh Lothian (Lovely Bones at Birmingham Rep and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Aldwych Theatre and on tour) as Miss Casewell, Steven Elliot (The Ladykillers UK tour and Associate Artist of Theatre Clwyd) as Mr Paravicini, and Garyn Williams (The Corn is Green at the National Theatre) as Detective Sgt. Trotter.

 

The Mousetrap - written by legendary crime writer Agatha Christie - premiered at Theatre Royal Nottingham in 1952 and toured the UK before opening in the West End where it continues its record-breaking run at St Martin’s Theatre for 70 years. 

 

 

The iconic thriller’s 70th Anniversary tour opened in Nottingham back in 2022 and is still making its way around the UK and Ireland, marking its milestone anniversary by visiting all cities it originally visited 70 years ago in addition to many more.

 

The Mousetrap will run at The Bristol Hippodrome from Monday 24 until Saturday 29 July 2023. Secure your tickets HERE.

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Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.