Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap to tour Australia in 2024

After a sold-out capital city tour in 2022-23 to celebrate its 70th birthday, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap will embark on a further tour across Australia in 2024. Produced by John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia and Shake & Stir Theatre Co, the acclaimed murder mystery will tour throughout New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory – kicking off at Newcastle’s Civic Theatre.

The Mousetrap will be directed by Australian theatre icon Robyn Nevin with costume design and associate set design by Isabel Hudson and lighting design by Trudy Dalgleish.

John Frost:

Following the hugely successful 70th anniversary tour, I’m thrilled to partner with Shake & Stir Theatre Co to tour The Mousetrap to regional Australia for the first time,. “I know audiences love to try and solve the mystery in what is probably the world’s most loved murder whodunnit. Will you pick the murderer?.

Nick Skubij, Shake & Stir Theatre Co’s Artistic Director:

We are chuffed to be collaborating with Crossroads Live to take ‘the world’s longest running show’ to some of our country’s most beautiful regions and venues, This play has been a sensation for seven decades, and now audiences in regional areas will be able to experience the very same, adored production – that has continually broken records – in their own back yard. It will be a monumental tour.

The Mousetrap had its world premiere on 6 October 1952 at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. After a brief tour, it opened in London’s West End on 25 November 1952 at the Ambassadors Theatre, where it ran until 23 March 1974. It immediately transferred to the larger St Martin’s Theatre next door, where it continues to this day.

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.

The Chicago Tribune:

A masterpiece… Of all the stage versions of Christie’s books, The Mousetrap is by far the best.

Daily Telegraph UK:

The cleverest murder mystery of the British Theatre. I think The Mousetrap could run forever.

Daily Express:

Even more thrilling than the plot is the atmosphere of shouldering suspense. No one brews it better than Agatha Christie.

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