The Mousetrap will be playing at Good Neighbors Theatre, 878 0 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.

The Mousetrap is currently celebrating its Diamond Anniversary and is in its 63rd year! It is the longest running show in the world. The play is also known for its twist ending , which the audiences are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre. GNT is also asking local theatre goers to enjoy their evening, but not to spoil the mystery for their friends in future audiences.

Tickets are available at the Pickett County Chamber of Commerce, 1005 Highway 111 (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 Theatre 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.

“It is the sort of play you can take anyone to. It is not really frightening. It is not really horrible. It is not really a farce but it has a little bit of all these things and perhaps that satisfies a lot of different people.” Agatha Christie, An Autobiography.

In 1954, the play was one of three of Christies running simultaneously in London’s West End, a feat which Agatha Christie was the first female playwright to achieve, and yet she is still omitted from most collections of prominent Twentieth Century women playwrights.

When she wrote the play, Christie gave the rights to her grandson for his ninth birthday present. (At the time he wanted a bike.) In the United Kingdom, only one production of the play in addition to the West End production can be performed annually, and under the contract terms of the play, no film adaptation can be produced until the West End production has been closed for at least six months , however an unapproved Russian film version was made in 1990 titled Myshelovka.

Christie herself did not expect The Mousetrap to run for such a long time. In her autobiography, she reports a conversation that she had with Peter Saunders: “Fourteen months I am going to give it”, says Saunders. To which Christie replies, “It won’t run that long. Eight months perhaps. Yes, I think eight months.” When it broke the record for the longest run of a play in the West End in September 1957, Christie received a mildly grudging telegram from fellow playwright Noël Coward : “Much as it pains me, I really must congratulate you …”

In 2011 (by which time The Mousetrap had been running for almost 59 years) this long-lost document was found by a Cotswold furniture maker who was renovating a bureau purchased by a client from the Christie estate.