The Mousetrap

The murderer comes to the guesthouse where snowbound visitors are trapped. He calls himself Sergeant Trotter and says he is a police investigator. In fact, he is only pretending to be a police...

In a surprise ending to the play, the murderer is revealed to be police detective Trotter. However, Trotter is an assumed name, and the man is actually not a police detective at all. It comes out...

Agatha Christie's classic who-done-it, The Mousetrap, is celebrating its 67th year (eight months shy of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II) of being the longest-running play in the world, with over...

A red herring is literally a smoked herring fish. Smoking a herring turns its flesh red. Samuel Pepys of diary fame in England in the 1660s records that one day he ate red herring for breakfast...

The ages of the characters in Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap play a key role in the plot. The initial murder in the play is the revenge of a mistreated foster child, George Corrigan, for the...

In The Mousetrap, the action occurs at Monkswell Manor, where Mollie and Giles Ralston are preparing for the arrival of their dinner guests, fretting over the effect the blizzard raising outside...

Christie's play began as a radio play titled Three Blind Mice. She had to give it a new title when she adapted it for the stage because there was already a play with that name. The new title, The...

The architect Christopher Wren is the first paying guest at Mollie and Guy's new guest house. Immediately, Christopher and Mollie hit it off, though Guy is somewhat nonplussed, with the...

In 1947, famed mystery writer Agatha Christie wrote a half-hour radio play, Three Blind Mice, which was broadcast as part of an evening of radio programs in honor of Queen Mary of England's...

In Agatha Christie's murder mystery play The Mousetrap, Mrs. Boyle is one of the guests at Monkswell Manor, an old home newly-refurbished as a guest house. Mrs. Boyle is a pompous, pretentious,...

Another brutal murder has taken place at 24 Culver Street; Mrs. Boyle has been strangled. Already on the scene due to investigate the murder of Maureen Lyon, Sergeant Trotter questions all of the...

That's a very good question and one that successive generations of critics have been asking themselves. To date, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has been running continuously in London's theater...

The setting for Agatha Christie’s murder mystery play The Mousetrap is the Great Hall of a house in the UK called Monkswell Manor, which has been converted to a guest house. Many of the props and...

In The Mousetrap, newlyweds Giles and Mollie Ralston have inherited a large estate called Monkswell Manor. The action of the play takes place in its Great Hall. To generate some regular income,...

On the first day of the opening of Monkswell Manor, the winter weather has resulted in dangerous, icy conditions. A severe snowstorm is occurring outside as Mollie and Giles Raston prepare for the...

This play may be difficult for ESL students with all the idioms and references to cultural knowledge. I would go with something like Amy Tan's excerpts of her books and then watch the film,...

The play opens in act 1, scene 1, with news of a murder in London where the murdered person was heard screaming as the tune "Three Blind Mice" played. Meanwhile, in the country, Mollie and Giles...

In an early scene of Agatha Christie’s hit play, The Mousetrap, the quirky young man Christopher Wren is the first guest to arrive at a newly opened guesthouse called Monkswell Manor. The...

Are you factoring in your breaks and the times you stop to give direction? Have you done a run-through, in which you do the play from start to finish with no breaks? That will give you a good sense...