The Mousetrap, will be playing at Good Neighbors Theatre, 8780 Highway 111 for five performances: Saturday, February 28; Sunday March 1; and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday March 5, 6, and 7. Sunday is a matinee at 2:00 PM. Other performances are evenings at 7:00 PM.

Tickets are available at the Pickett County Chamber of Commerce 1005 Highway 111, Byrdstown, Tennessee (931) 864-7195. Adult admission is $12 and children 3-12 are $8. Children under two years of age are free.

Please note a change to our ticket policy: All tickets reserved in advance must be prepaid in full.

All pre-reserved tickets can be confirmed through the GNT Ticket Outlet at the Pickett County Chamber of Commerce. Reservations may be made by stopping by the Chamber of Commerce in person to purchase tickets or by calling in a reservation.

All reservations called in to be held for Will Call must mail payment to be received by Good Neighbors Theater within three days of making the reservation.

The last day for GNT to receive mailed in checks is Friday, February 27 for the first weekend performances and Wednesday, March 4 for the second weekend performances. Make checks payable to GNT at P.O. Box 493, Byrdstown, TN 38549. All tickets are non-refundable. Tickets on Will Call not claimed 10 minutes prior to curtain are subject to be released for resale.

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. He no sooner arrives, when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. 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.

Agatha Christie’s great play has been thrilling audiences from around the world for as long as HRH Queen Elizabeth II has been on the throne.

The story was adapted from a radio play, Three Blind Mice, written for the Royal family in honor of Queen Mary , the consort of King George V in 1947. The stage play had to be renamed on the insistence of another producer, Emile Littler, who had used the name on stage before the Second World War, and it was Agatha Christie’s son-in-law, who suggested the new title. In fact, it refers to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which Hamlet cryptically calls the play depicting the murder of the king, ‘The Mousetrap’.

The Mousetrap had its origins in the real-life case of the death of a boy, Dennis O’Neill, who died while in the foster care of a Shropshire farmer and his wife in 1945.