Mon 3 - Sat 8 Jun 2024
Mon 3 -
Sat 8 Jun 2024
Tour Dates
SHREWSBURY Severn Theatre
Mon 10 - Sat 15 Jun 2024
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Sat 15 Jun 2024
Tues 25 - Sat 29 Jun 2024
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Sat 29 Jun 2024
Mon 1 - Sat 6 Jul 2024
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Sat 6 Jul 2024
Mon 8 - Sat 13 Jul 2024
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Sat 13 Jul 2024
Tue 16 - Sat 20 Jul 2024
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Sat 20 Jul 2024
Tue 23 - Sat 27 Jul 2024
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Sat 27 Jul 2024
Mon 29 Jul - Sat 3 Aug 2024
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Sat 3 Aug 2024
About
The Mousetrap is the genre-defining murder mystery from Agatha Christie, the world’s best-selling novelist of all time. As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at Monkswell Manor, 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?
The 70th anniversary tour opened at the Theatre Royal Nottingham, where it held its original world premiere in 1952. The iconic thriller is now visiting over 70 venues across the country, including all cities to which it originally played 70 years ago, plus many more.
This 70th Anniversary tour marks the first of many ways that The Mousetrap will be celebrating its extraordinary milestone year.
In the truly ensemble piece where everyone is a suspect Todd Carty (EastEnders, Grange Hill, Dancing on Ice) plays Major Metcalf, Hollie Sullivan (Barefoot in the Park (Vienna’s English Theatre) will appear as Mollie Ralston, Barnaby Jago (Shakuntala Devi Human Computer -Sony) as Giles Ralston, Shaun McCourt (Blood Brothers UK Tour, War Horse) as Christopher Wren, Judith Rae (Switzerland -Ambassadors Theatre, West End) as Mrs Boyle, Amy Spinks (Shakespeare Nation -RSC) as Miss Casewell, Steven Elliott (The Crown, Holby City) as Mr Paravicini and Michael Ayiotis (Salty in John Godber’s Teechers ’23 (UK Tour) as Detective Sgt. Trotter. This casting is for 2023 venues.
The 70th Anniversary tour of The Mousetrap continues to visit towns and cities around the country finishing on 3rd August 2024 in Windsor Theatre Royal.
Following its 1952 premiere touring production, The Mousetrap opened in the West End where still to this day, it continues its record-breaking engagement at the St Martin’s Theatre having been performed there over 29,500 times, selling over 10 million tickets.
Cast and Creative
Hollie SullivanMollie Ralston
Hollie Sullivan
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Theatre credits include: Barefoot in the Park (Vienna’s English Theatre); Private Lives (Vienna’s English Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vienna’s English Theatre); Barefoot in the Park (The Mill at Sonning); Sam Wanamaker Festival 2016 (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Festival-Neuss).
Film and Television credits include: Waking The Dead (BBC); A Second Son (Amazon Prime Video).
Other credits include: Doctor Who – The Middle (Big Finish Productions); The Surveyor (Web series).
Barnaby JagoGiles Ralston
Barnaby Jago
Training: Arts Ed
Film & Television Credits include: Shakuntala Devi Human Computer (Sony), The Beast of Blue Yonder
Other credits include: Barnaby has narrated numerous audiobooks and audio dramas including The Iron Chariot by Stein Riverton Albie in Doctor Who Albie’s Angels.
Shaun McCourtChristopher Wren
Shaun McCourt
Training: Guildford school of Acting.
Theatre credits include: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre and UK Tour); The Windsors: Endgame (Prince of Wales Theatre); Blood Brothers (UK Tour); War Horse (New LondonTheatre); The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre); Imagine This (Union Theatre); Iolanthe (Wilton’sMusic Hall); The Pirates of Penzance (Kilworth House); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UKTour); and Bernstein’s Mass (Royal Festival Hall).
Workshops include: The Grinning Man (NTStudios); I Capture the Castle (NT Studios); The Attic (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
Judith RaeMrs Boyle
Judith Rae
Training: Mountview Theatre School (Postgraduate Diploma Acting); Cardiff University (PG Diploma - Theatre Studies).
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (UK Tour); Switzerland (Ambassadors Theatre, West End); Lear (Valley of the Rocks, Exmoor); The Importance of Being Earnest (UK Tour); Deathtrap (UK Tour); A Room With a View (Bath Theatre Royal); And Then There Were None (UK Tour); La Bohème (Royal Albert Hall); Birds of a Feather (UK Tour); Duet for One (UK Tour); Less Than Kind (UK Tour); Seasons Greetings (UK Tour); House of Ghosts (UK Tour); Women on the Verge of HRT (UK Tour); Private Lives (UK Tour); The Clean House (UK Tour); Bedroom Farce (UK Tour); Strangers on a Train (UK Tour); Marrying the Mistress (UK Tour); Arsenic & Old Lace (UK Tour); The Shell Seekers (UK Tour); My Boy Jack (Yvonne Arnaud & UK Tour) and Corpse! (UK Tour).
Todd CartyMajor Metcalf
Todd Carty
Todd began his career at the age of four. He made his stage debut at the New London Theatre, where he played the leading role in the musical based on Lionel Bart’s life. As Tucker in the BBC’s Grange Hill, Todd became an overnight success leading to his own series Tucker’s Luck. He is also known for his roles of Mark Fowler in EastEnders (BBC) and of PC Gabriel Kent in The Bill (Talkback/Thames).
Theatre credits include: Patsy in Spamalot (West End and UK Tour) and Detective Inspector Hallett in The Business of Murder (UK Tour). Film and Television credits include: Oswyn in Krull (Columbia Pictures); Angus in Professor Poppers Problems (CFF Films); Randy Candy in The Candy Show (Beaconsfield Films); Mike in Birches (True Films); Dan in The Drive (Ninja Penguin Productions); As himself in A Touch of Cloth (SKY TV); Ray Hallam in Heartbeat (ITV); Cameron Cooke in Holby City (BBC); Pentecost in The Black Velvet Band (Yorkshire TV). Todd was also the subject of This Is Your Life (BBC) in 2000.
Other credits include: Dancing On Ice (ITV); Masterchef (BBC); Mastermind (BBC); Dangerous Adventures For Boys (C5 which he won with his eldest son James);Celebrity Driving Academy (BBC with his youngest sonThomas). Directed feature film The Perfect Burger (BYFA) and several episodes of Doctors (BBC).
Todd has provided narration for numerous televisionprogrammes including Paddington Green (BBC), Driving Mum Crazy (Meridian TV) and Scene in New York (BBC).
Amy SpinksMiss Casewell
Amy Spinks
Training: Arts Educational Schools, London.
Theatre credits include: Shakespeare Nation (RSC), Bab’s Big Show (Museum of Comedy), Comedy Swingers (Vault Festival), Come On (Arcola Theatre), A Guide to Second Date Sex (Bread and Roses Theatre) and Scarlett Lane Edinburgh Fringe).
Television credits include: Laugh Lessons (BBC 3), Lala’s Ladiez (ZeeTV & Endemol Shine).
Film credits include: Mark (MOWL), Peeler, Lifeguards (Burning Reel), BaiL (Franklyn Lane Films), Sticky (Vitamin Films).
Other credits: BBC New Comedy Awards (BBC Radio 4), Tits Up (web-series).
Amy is part of the sketch duo BAB who won the Funny Women comedy short Award 2023, presented by Jo Brand and were semi-finalists of Leicester Square Theatre’s Sketch Off! 2022.
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Steven ElliotMr Paravicini & Resident Director
Steven Elliot
Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre credits include: Frankenstein (Danny Boyle, National Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre); The Ladykillers (UK tour); Dancing at Lughnasa (Abbey Theatre, Dublin);
Productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company include: Twelfth Night, Henry V, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Jew of Malta, The Bite of the Night, A Christmas Carol, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Pentecost.
Productions with Theatre Clywd include: Macbeth, Arcadia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off, The Suicide, Two Princes, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, A Chorus of Disapproval, Jumpy, and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Television credits include: The Crown; Holby City; Da Vinci’s Demons; Judge John Deed; Mike Bassett – Manager; Inspector Morse; Ghostboat; Dal y Melt; Porthpenwaig; Tess of the D’Urbevilles; Crash; Tunnel of Love; War Gamers.
Film credits include: Warchief; Roald and Beatrix; Y Swyn; Cold Earth; Time Bandits; Hamlet; Les Miserables; Rise of the Appliances; The Watcher in the Woods; King Lear, True West and Frankenstein (NT Live).
Steven is an Associate Learning Practitioner for the RSC and Associate Artist at Theatre Clwyd.
Michael AyiotisDetective Sgt. Trotter
Michael Ayiotis
Theatre credits include: Salty in John Godber’s Teechers ’23 (UK Tour), Arthur in The Sun, The Mountain and Me (Union Theatre), Pickle in Sleeping Beauty, Silly Billy in Jack and the Beanstalk, Buttons in Cinderella, Abanazar in Aladdin and Dick Whittington in Dick Whittington (all at South Hill Park Arts Centre), Achilles in Wrath of Achilles (Bedivere Arts), Market Boy (Union Theatre), Timms in The History Boys (London Contemporary Theatre).
Television and Film credits include: Breaking the Band: Black Sabbath (ITV), Raymond’s Five (Short), Grass Roots (Short) and The Pains of Youth (Short).
Other credits include: EE Mobile (Television).
Jack GeorgeASM Understudy Christopher Wren/ Detective Sgt Trotter
Jack George
Training: Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company
Theatre credits include: The Art of Saying Goodbye (VAULT Festival), Titus Andronicus (Fourth Monkey), Days of Significance (Fourth Monkey), Appropriate (Fourth Monkey).
Other credits include: Exploited II (Pukka Films).
Jonathan MathewsUnderstudy Giles/ Metcalf/ Paravicini
Jonathan Mathews
Training: The Oxford School of Drama.
Theatre Credits include: White Fang (Park Theatre), Alice's Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles), The Bunker Trilogy (Jethro Compton Productions), Much Ado About Nothing (New Wimbledon Theatre) and Fawlty Towers the Dining Experience (ITI).
Matthew NewtonUnderstudy Giles/ Metcalf/ Paravicini
Matthew Newton
Training: London College of Music and The Salon: Collective.
Theatre Credits include: The Brothers Karamazov as Alyosha (King’s Head Theatre) and Thomas Becket in T.S. Eliot’s verse drama, Murder in the Cathedral.
Television credits include: London Class (MBC).
Matthew is also a conductor and choir master, and as well as the piano and organ, he plays the viola with a number of orchestras around London.
Helen PercivalUnderstudy Mollie Ralston/ Miss Casewell
Helen Percival
Training: RADA
Theatre credits include: The Last Time I Saw Caileigh (Brooklyn Art Haus Theatre), Type on Paper (Tabard Theatre), Communicate (Sheepish Productions), Northanger Abbey (Cyphers Theatre Company), Hillary’s Kitchen (Edinburgh Fringe)
Television credits include: Martha Gellhorn in The Secret History of WW2
Helen is also a spoken word poet and in 2023 wrote and performed her first one woman show called Phoenix.
Hilary DerrettUNDERSTUDY MRS BOYLE
Hilary Derrett
Hilary trained at the Laban Centre.
Theatre includes: Gunhild Borkman (understudy) in John Gabriel Borkman (The Bridge Theatre, Londobn); Mary Highland/Janet Oram (understudy) in The Southbury Child (Chichester Festival Theatre); Mrs Boyle (understudy) in The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre, London); Sheila Carter in Relatively Speaking (Shrewsbury); Laura Stratton in Time of my Life (Brockley Jack Theatre, London); Gerlinde/Kate in Where Will We Live (Southwark Playhouse, London); Duchess of Gloucester in Play of Thrones (Union Theatre, London); Jean Perkins in Funny Money (Vienna English Theatre); Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (tour); Jacques in As You Like It (tour); Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (Bamberg Staat Theater, Germany).
TV includes: Margaret Nicholson in The History of Bedlam (History Channel); Rose West & Amelia Dyer in Martina Cole’s Ladykillers (ITV).
Radio includes: Librarian in Charlotte & Lillian (Radio 4); Janet Braid in Coward’s Peace in Our Time (Digital Drama); Alex in Fugitive Pieces (Radio 3); Kirsten in Dangerous Influences (Radio 4).
Recent Film:
Zoey in Joshua and Zoey; Charlotte in The Estate Agent; Old Lady/Doctor in Tales from Pussy Willow (animation).
Creative Team
Writer (1890-1976)AGATHA CHRISTIE
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature.
Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six rejections, but this changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her her works come third in the rankings of the world’s most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare’s works and the Bible. The Mousetrap holds the world record for longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952, and is still running after more than 27,500 performances.
DirectorIAN TALBOT O.B.E
IAN TALBOT O.B.E
Ian was Artistic and Managing Director of The Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park from 1987 until 2007. For Regent’s Park he directed Babes In Arms; The Fantasticks; Lady Be Good; The Card; Kiss Me, Kate; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum; Oh, What A Lovely War; H.M.S. Pinafore (all nominated for Olivier Awards); The Pirates Of Penzance (Olivier nomination for best director 2000); Much Ado About Nothing; Androcles and the Lion; Look Here Old Son; The Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; A Connecticut Yankee; The Comedy Of Errors; Paint Your Wagon; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; The Music Man; Where’s Charley?; Camelot and The Boyfriend.
His other directing credits include: The Secret Garden (Watermill Theatre; Newbury); Yeoman Of The Guard (Savoy Theatre); Peter Pan (Royal Festival Hall); High Society (Shaftesbury Theatre and national tour); The Pirates Of Penzance (West Yorkshire Playhouse and national tour); Anything Goes (national tour); Kiss Me; Kate (Brisbane Festival); Lend Me A Tenor The Musical (Gielgud Theatre); Doctor In The House (national tour); The Invisible Man and Charlie’s Aunt (The Menier Chocolate Factory); Love Letters (Dubai Festival); Third Finger Left Hand (Trafalgar Studios); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe; San Diego); Million Dollar Quartet (national tour); Eugenius (The Other Palace); The Mousetrap (St. Martins Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (national tour); White Christmas (national tour) and many overseas tours and pantomimes.
DirectorDENISE SILVEY
DENISE SILVEY
Denise trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career as an actress and singer working in the West End, film, television, and radio. She began her relationship with The Mousetrap by playing Miss Casewell in 1994 and then again in 2001. She became Production Supervisor for the show in 2009 and then Artistic Director in 2018. She has cast every West End production since 2009, tours since 2015 and has cast and directed productions in China, the Far East and India.
Other production and casting credits include: Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk (feature films), Bloody Difficult Women (Riverside Studios), The Pargetter Triptych (podcast), Musik (Edinburgh and West End), The Dame (Park Theatre and National Tour), Dead Sheep (Park Theatre and National Tour), An Audience with Jimmy Saville (Park Theatre and Edinburgh), The Roundabout (Park Theatre and New York), Twitstorm, Deny Deny Deny and Twilight Song (Park Theatre), Alex Salmond Unleashed (Edinburgh and National Tour), Once Seen on Blue Peter (Edinburgh Festival), All or Nothing (Arts and Ambassadors Theatre), Don’t Call Me Nigel (National Tour), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (National Tour), The Watcher (Waterloo East Theatre), The Translucent Frogs of Quuup (Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Theatre, Kings Head), Burton, Clown in the Moon, Wilde Without the Boy (Edinburgh and St James’s Theatre), The Man Called Monkhouse (National Tour), Starting Here, Starting Now (Jermyn Street Theatre).
She is also a recipient of both Stage One Bursary and Start Up Fund for producers and is a member of UK Theatre and the League of Independent Producers.
COSTUME SUPERVISORCaroline Hannam
PRODUCERADAM SPIEGEL
ADAM SPIEGEL
Over the past 25 years, Adam Spiegel has produced extensively in London’s West End as well as various tours throughout the UK and internationally. Most recently Adam has taken over as producer of the world’s longest running show The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre), upholding its prestigious legacy within the West End.
West End credits include: Motown The Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Fame (Aldwych Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre); Sister Act (London Palladium); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria); High School Musical – Live on Stage! (Hammersmith Apollo); Midnight Tango (Aldwych Theatre, Phoenix Theatre); Dance ‘Til Dawn (Aldwych Theatre); Love Story (Duchess Theatre); Crazy for You (Novello Theatre); The Mysteries (Queen’s Theatre) and Birdy (Comedy Theatre).
UK touring credits include: Motown the Musical (2018); Fat Friends the Musical (2017); Tango Moderno (2017); Shirley Valentine (2017); The Mousetrap 60th anniversary tour (2012–2016); To Kill a Mockingbird (2014 and 2015); Love Me Tender (2015)The Producers (2015); Fame; Saturday Night Fever; The Last Tango (2015-2016); Dance ‘Til Dawn (2014 and 2015); Midnight Tango (2011, 2012 and 2013); Strictly Come Dancing Live; High School Musical – Live on Stage!; High School Musical 2; the Creole Choir of Cuba; The Mysteries; Lady Salsa and Five Guys Named Moe.
International touring credits include: Saturday Night Fever (Australasian and Scandinavian tours); Fame (Scandinavian and US tours) and the Creole Choir of Cuba (worldwide).
Other theatre credits include: To Kill a Mockingbird (Barbican Theatre); Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall, London); Lady Salsa (Pleasance Theatre) and Promises, Promises (Sheffield Theatres).
Adam produced the annual Laurence Olivier Awards for the Society of London Theatre for five years running from 2004 to 2008. Adam has also previously acted as an arts consultant for both The Sunday Times and Tate Britain. Adam now sits on the board of SOLT and the League of Independent Producers.
www.adamspiegel.comPRODUCERSIR STEPHEN WALEY-COHEN
SIR STEPHEN WALEY-COHEN
Sir Stephen has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was Joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group which acquired and managed the Albery, Criterion, Donmar Warehouse, Piccadilly, Whitehall and Wyndham’s Theatre, as well as developing the first British owned multiplex cinemas. Maybox was sold in 1989, in which year he became Director of the Victoria Palace Theatre but sold it to Cameron Mackintosh in 2014. Sir Stephen became the Producer of The Mousetrap in 1994. Since then he has also taken on the management of the St Martin’s Theatre as well as the Vaudeville from 1995 – 2002 and the Savoy from 1997 – 2005. In April 2007 Sir Stephen purchased the Ambassadors Theatre, the sister theatre to the St.Martin’s and the original home of The Mousetrap for the first 21 years of its run. Before entering the theatre business Sir Stephen was a financial journalist and a founder director of Euromoney Publications. Sir Stephen was President of the Society of London Theatre from 2002 to 2005; and he was a Trustee of The Theatres Trust 1998 – 2004. In 2007 Sir Stephen became Chairman of RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
He founded Mousetrap Theatre Projects in 1996 which each year takes thousands of young people, who would not otherwise have the opportunity, to the best of West End Theatre, and is the industry’s leading education charity.
Original Producer (1911 - 2003)SIR PETER SAUNDERS
SIR PETER SAUNDERS
Peter Saunders’ first job was as a very junior assistant cameraman. He graduated to cameraman and film director.
He then produced his own films and lost all his money.
He worked as a reporter on the Daily Express for four years; then as press agent to bandleader Harry Roy. He joined the army when war broke out, rising from private to captain.
He jumped in at the deep end and put on his first play in 1947. He then produced more than 150 shows all over the world including the world record breaking The Mousetrap. In 1981 he was knighted for his services to the theatre. In April 1994 he transferred the management of The Mousetrap to Mousetrap Productions run by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen. Sir Peter’s hobbies included chess, photography, the music of George Gershwin, telephoning, and collecting wills. He was married to Katie Boyle.
Company Stage ManagerLauren Barclay
Deputy Stage ManagerMatthew Pain
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