The Mousetrap is the longest running show on the West End, and has delighted audiences since it first opened in 1952 with theatre tickets selling continuously for over 50 years. Agatha Christie’s top selling murder mystery, which is famed for it’s notoriously well kept secret ending, plays at the St Martins theatre, with theatre tickets still available for it. The Mousetrap originated as a radio play called Three Blind Mice, which aired in honour of Queen Mary in May 1947. When the play came to the West End it had to be renamed, since there already existed a play by Emily Littler called Three Blind Mice. Anthony Hicks, Agatha Christie’s son-in-law, suggested â€The Mousetrap’ in reference to a line in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Mousetrap first premiered upon the stage at the Theatre Royal Nottingham in October 1962, directed by Peter Cotes. It visited several regional theatres before coming to the New Ambassadors Theatre in London’s West End in November. In 1974 it transferred next door to the St Martins Theatre, where David Turner has directed the show for many years. Richard Attenborough was amongst the original West End cast, playing Detective Sergeant Trotter alongside wife Sheila Sim in the role of Mollie Ralston. The Mousetrap takes place at Monkswell Manor, where Mollie and Giles Ralston, a young couple, have recently converted the property into a new hotel. The blustering weather conditions leave the Ralstons snowed in alongside their guest, a traveller, when Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives upon skis warning of the imminent arrival of a murderer from London. Soon Mrs Boyle turns up dead, and they realise that the murderer is already in their midst. Their attention swiftly turns to the odd eccentric Christopher Wren, however it soon becomes clear that any one of them could be guilty. At The Concierge Desk we provide cheap London theatre tickets for the top selling shows on the West End.
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