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Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Ian Watt-Smith Reviewer: Mark Clegg The Public Reviews Rating: “Don’t give away the ending -” beseeched the tagline of Hitchcock’s classic movie Psycho, “it’s the only one we have!” A similar request is made to the audience of this play during the curtain calls. We are all now partners in crime and share the [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Ian Watt-Smith Reviewer: Bethaney Rimmer The Public Reviews Rating: Agatha Christie’s quintessential murder mystery, The Mousetrap, is the longest running production in the world, now in its 60th year of being on stage. To celebrate its diamond anniversary, director Ian Watt-Smith is taking the play on tour, and it can currently be seen at [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Ian Watt-Smith Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: The Mousetrap is famously the West End’s longest running play, having opened there in November 1952 after a short provincial tour and still running at St Martin’s. None of those involved thought that this play, developed from a short radio play, would last very long: [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Ian Watt-Smith Reviewer: Andrew Liddle The Public Reviews Rating: Everybody in Britain and Ireland now has the chance to see one of the greatest, most enduring institutions in popular theatre. The Diamond Anniversary tour of Agatha Christie’s ingenious whodunit, The Mousetrap, began in Canterbury last September and will end in Dublin next June, having [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Ian Watt-Smith Reviewer: Kathryn M. Bartlett The Public Reviews Rating: Now in its record-breaking 60th, diamond anniversary year, Agatha Christie’s famous stage play, still running in London’s West End, has embarked on its first ever tour. Already playing to sold-out houses nationwide, and booking well in to 2014, it has certainly been so far [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Ian Watt-Smith Reviewer: Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: The Mousetrap is famous around the world as being the longest running show of any kind in the history of British theatre. Tonight at Milton Keynes Theatre we were treated to Mousetrap on its first ever tour to celebrate an unbelievable 60 years on stage. [...]