‘The Mousetrap’ has celebrated its 30,000th peformance this week, and Darkling clients Cathryn Sherman and Clive Marlowe are both lucky enough to be working on this, the longest-running play in the world!

Agatha Christie’s genre defying murder mystery has kept the West End asking “whodunnit” for over 73 years. It had its world premiere on 6th October 1952 at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. It subsequently visited the New Theatre, Oxford; The Opera House, Manchester; The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool; The Theatre Royal, Newcastle; The Grand Theatre, Leeds; and the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, before opening in London at the Ambassadors Theatre on Tuesday 25th November.
In the cast were Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Martin Miller, Jessica Spencer, Aubrey Dexter, Mignon O’Doherty, Allan McClelland and John Paul.
It moved to its current home at the St Martin’s Theatre in 1974.