John Altman joins Todd Carty and Gwyneth Strong in The Mousetrap

John Altman (EastEnders) joins Todd Carty and Gwyneth Strong in THE MOUSETRAP 70th Anniversary Tour.

Full casting is announced for the 70th Anniversary tour of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the world, which will visit over 70 venues throughout the UK and Ireland from this September.

Gwyneth Strong as Mrs Boyle. Photo by Matt Crockett.

Joining the previously announced Todd Carty (EastEnders, Grange Hill, Dancing on Ice) as Major Metcalf and Gwyneth Strong (Only Fools and Horses, EastEnders) as Mrs. Boyle will be fellow EastEnders actor John Altman as Mr. Paravicini, Joelle Dyson (Dreamgirls, Funny Girl) as Mollie Ralston, Laurence Pears (Magic Goes Wrong) as Giles Ralston, Elliot Clay as Christopher Wren (The Mousetrap in London), Essie Barrow (The Mousetrap in London) as Miss Casewell, and Joseph Reed (The Nobodies) as Detective Sgt. Trotter.

The genre-defining murder mystery from Agatha Christie, the world’s best-selling novelist of all time, will open at the Theatre Royal Nottingham, where it held its original world premiere in 1952. The iconic thriller will then visit 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.

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 28,500 times, selling over 10 million tickets.

Opening at Theatre Royal Nottingham on 27 September 2022, the 70th Anniversary tour of The Mousetrap will visit Dublin, Cork, Brighton, Birmingham, Liverpool, Oxford, Bath, Manchester,Norwich, Malvern, Newcastle, Coventry, Southampton, York, Cardiff, Plymouth, Lichfield, Stoke-on-Trent, Woking, Perth, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cheltenham, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Inverness, Aberdeen, Blackpool, Hereford, Chelmsford, Dundee, Derby, Bristol, Leeds, Cambridge, Torquay, Buxton, Swansea, Northampton, Truro, Peterborough, King’s Lynn, Guildford, New Brighton, Bromley, and Hastings, continuing throughout 2023 with further venues into 2024 to be announced in due course.

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 Mousetrap is produced by Adam Spiegel & Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen and Directed by Ian Talbot OBE.

For full tour details, see MousetrapOnTour.co.uk

Listings
From 27 September 2022
Running Time approximately 2hr 20mins

Selected Venues

BRIGHTON THEATRE ROYAL
Mon 31 Oct – Sat 5 Nov 2022

BIRMINGHAM ALEXANDRA THEATRE
Mon 7 – Sat 12 Nov 2022

LIVERPOOL EMPIRE THEATRE
Mon 14 – Sat 19 Nov 2022

OXFORD NEW THEATRE
Mon 21 – Sat 26 Nov 2022

MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE
Mon 23 – Sat 28 Jan 2022

YORK GRAND OPERA HOUSE
Tue 14 – Sat 18 Mar 2023

STOKE-ON-TRENT REGENT THEATRE
Mon 10 – Sat 15 Apr 2023

WOKING NEW VICTORIA THEATRE
Mon 17 – Sat 22 Apr 2023