Students Bring World's Longest Running Play To Reinhardt

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The theatre program at Reinhardt University will present “The Mousetrap,” written by Agatha Christie, later this month.

The show w ill run at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20 and 21 and 3 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Falany Performing Arts Center on Reinhardt’s campus in Waleska.

The play has been produced through a special arrangement with Samuel French, INC.

The production is described as:

​A group of strangers is 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. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.

The world’s longest running play, now celebrating its Diamond Anniversary in its 60th year, The Mousetrap was first presented on the West End by Peter Saunders at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on Nov. 25, 1952. It was directed by Peter Cotes.

The cast of characters include: Victoria Staley as “Mollie”; Clark Cumbee as “Giles”; Nik Griffo as “Christopher”; Matt Luce as “Metcalf”; Anna Johnson as “Casewell”; Parker Patzke as “Paravicini”; Tyler Bucher as “Trotter”; Unita Harris as “Mrs. Boyle”; and Harrison Murphy as the male understudy.

Tickets can be purchased at www.reinhardt.tix.com, by email at boxoffice@reinhardt.edu or by calling 770-720-9167.