The world’s longest running play, now celebrating its Diamond Anniversary in its 60th year, will be playing in Good Neighbors Theatre along with 29 other USA cities in the 2014-2015 theatre season, The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie will be directed by Melva Nunnery.

Auditions are being held Monday and Tuesday, December 29 and 30 at 6:00 PM at GNT. There will be five performances: Saturday, February 28, Sunday March 1, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday March 5, 6, and 7.

Roles include three women: Mollie Ralston – Proprietor of Monkswell Manor, and wife of Giles; Mrs. Boyle – A critical older woman who is pleased by nothing she observes; and Miss Casewell – A strange, aloof, woman who speaks offhandedly about the horrific experiences of her childhood.

Five men are needed in roles for: Giles Ralston – Husband of Mollie who runs Monkswell Manor with his wife; Major Metcalf – Retired from the army, little is known about Major Metcalf; Mr. Paravicini – A man of unknown provenance, who turns up claiming his car has overturned in a snowdrift.; Detective Sergeant Trotter – A policeman who arrives in a snow storm saying he has come to protect the guests from the murderer; and Christopher Wren – A hyperactive young man who acts in a very peculiar manner. He admits he is running away from something, but refuses to say what.

The play is about a group of strangers 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. To get to the rationale of the murderer’s pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons.

The play is known for its twist ending, which the audience is traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre.