DERBY LINE — One of the most popular plays of all time, the classic Agatha Christie murder mystery, The Mousetrap, will be showing at the Haskell Opera House October 12-14 and 19-21.
This Borderline Players production of The Mousetrap is directed by Thomas Perry, who most recently directed the troupe’s sold-out summer production of Little Shop of Horrors.
The cast includes Marianna Barrett, Jim Cross, Leanne Harple, Sue Kuzma, Shannon Quinn, Jessi Sackett, Jim Young, and John Young.
First produced in London’s West End in 1952, this “whodunnit” has been running continuously ever since, making it the longest running show in history.
A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer.
The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage.
Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone.
Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, when a second murder occurs.
To get to the rationale of the murderer’s pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons.
This production of The Mousetrap is underwritten by North Country Hospital.
Showtimes are Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee Sunday, October 14 at 2:00 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m., with a second matinee Sunday, October 21 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets are $15.00 for adults, $12 for students (under 17) and $12 for seniors (55+).
They are on sale in Newport, at the MAC Center and Madam Archetype’s Panoply, and in Stanstead at the Colby-Curtis Museum.
You can also get tickets online at www.borderlineplayers.org, or at the Haskell box office one hour before the show.
