Agatha Christie

[Courtenay]

It's the longest-running play in the world, actually - over 62 years and counting! I believe they keep the plot (and the denouement) a tightly guarded secret so that audiences will keep coming to find out what happens.

[Chrissie777]

How I wish they would come to Boston or Worcester!

[Courtenay]

They've been to Australia, so you never know!!

[Katharine]

I'm really glad they keep the plot a secret, I'm just amazed people don't discuss it though. Personally I'm not going to tell anyone what happens. My husband bought a programme in the interval, but I wouldn't even open it until after the play had finished, just in case it gave anything away. Haven't been in that much suspense since I read the final Harry Potter book.

Chrissie, I hope one day you are able to see it.

[Chrissie777]

Chrissie, I hope one day you are able to see it.

Me, too . Maybe after Australia they will tour the US...

[Courtenay]

I'm sure plenty of people must have revealed the plot and the culprit on the internet, but I don't dare to go looking, just in case I go and see the play myself one day! I've always been annoyed that I somehow, years ago, stumbled across a spoiler for one of Agatha Christie's most famous and daring mystery stories, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, so now I'll never have the thrill of the unexpected twist at the end.

[sixret]

Excellent experience, Katharine. I share the sentiment. Like you Chrissie, I would love to watch Mousetrap play in theater one day even though I read The Three Blind Mice(aka The Mousetrap) in book form years ago when I was im my late teens when I would devour every Christie books that I can get my hands to. Then about 2 years ago, I bought The Mousetrap and other plays in hardcover(I provide the link below for whoever wants to buy it). The book contains 8 plays written by Agatha Christie. I know the denouement and the murderer. Are the denouement and the murderer in the play and the book same?

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[sixret]

Yes. there are spoilers everywhere on the internet Courtenay because they have read the story in book form or have read the play in book form. But I'm not sure whether the denouement and the culprit are same with the theater play.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Just been to see The Mousetrap - a dream come true - excellent.

I went to see it in 1978. I still remember clearly "whodunnit" but my lips have remained sealed.

[pete9012S]

As many fans of Agatha will no doubt already know,Agatha Christie signed over the rights to the Mousetrap to her beloved Grandson Matthew Pritchard thinking it would be a short lived performance as a small gift and token of her love and appreciation for him never dreaming it would have been the constant success from inception in 1952 even until Agatha passed away in January 12, 1976 and right up our present day.

[sixret]

Yes, you are right, Pete. And Curtain's right went to Rosalind and Sleeping Murder's right went to Max Mallowan. But now, all the rights of her books are under Agatha Christie Limited.

[Moonraker]

The rights were held by Chorion, but after their demise, HarperCollins secured the global publishing rights.

[pete9012S]

I don't know if the rights to the Mousetrap Play are separate from the book rights of Agatha Christie.Does anyone know?
I do know Matthew benefited enormously financially from his Grandmothers kind gift.

[Courtenay]

I bet he did!

[pete9012S]

The Official Agatha Christie Newsletter November

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Christie on street view
Here's a great article from Shortlist enabling you to walk past houses that belonged to Agatha Christie and some of the other most famous authors in the world, all from the comfort of your chair. See them here.

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