Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
Mon 10 – Sat 15 February 2020
Following the success of The Mousetrap at the Wyvern Theatre in 2014 and 2016, the world-renowned murder mystery, now in its record-breaking 68th year in London’s West End, is back by popular demand on the Swindon stage.
Starring Susan Penhaligon (Bouquet of Barbed Wire, A Fine Romance, Emmerdale) as Mrs Boyle, alongside a spectacular new cast directed by the critically-acclaimed Gareth Armstrong.
First seen in Nottingham in 1952, The Mousetrap fast became a standout favourite with the press and the public alike and, now, it’s Swindon audiences’ chance to discover why Agatha Christie’s masterpiece has kept people guessing for so long.
The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house, cut off by the snow, discover, to their horror, that a murderer is in their midst! Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until, at the last, nerve-shredding moment, the identity and the motive are finally revealed. Experience the shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot, where murder lurks around every corner at the Wyvern Theatre this February.
Susan Penhaligon stars in The Mousetrap at the Wyvern Theatre from Monday 10 until Saturday 15 February. Book tickets online at swindontheatres.co.uk