{"id":593495,"date":"2025-11-25T20:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593495\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:12:25","slug":"75th-anniversary-tour-of-the-mousetrap-to-open-at-the-alexandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593495\/","title":{"rendered":"75th anniversary tour of The Mousetrap to open at The Alexandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6925e27494b93.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Agatha Christie\u2019s iconic thriller and the world\u2019s longest running play, The Mousetrap will embark on a major UK tour, opening at The Alexandra theatre next September.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The tour forms part of wider plans to celebrate The Mousetrap\u2019s 75th anniversary year with more exciting celebrations to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Full casting and creative team for the tour to be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1952, Agatha Christie\u2019s The Mousetrap has captivated the world with silent clues, shifting shadows and the best kept secret in theatre history. Now, the record-breaking classic embarks on its 75th Anniversary Tour across the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The story see&#8217;s a shocking murder rattle London, and far from the chaos, a remote country guesthouse welcomes seven strangers seeking refuge. But when a police sergeant battles through a deadly snowstorm with a warning no one expects, it becomes clear the threat is already within their walls.<\/p>\n<p>Every whisper hides a clue. Every story masks a lie. And as suspicion tightens its grip, one question chills the room: Who among them is capable of murder?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the play celebrated its 30,000th performance in the West End and was presented with a Guinness World Records certificate for the record title longest theatrical run.<\/p>\n<p>The genre-defining murder mystery opened in 1952 and continues to enthral audiences at London\u2019s St Martin\u2019s Theatre, now booking into its 75th year in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are on sale to members from 1st December at 10am, with general sale launching on 2nd December at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atgtickets.com\/shows\/the-mousetrap\/the-alexandra-theatre-birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">atgtickets.com\/birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agatha Christie\u2019s iconic thriller and the world\u2019s longest running play, The Mousetrap will embark on a major UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-593495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-online","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-sport","25":"tag-stourbridge","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115612166202843508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}