REVIEW: Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” at the Sharon Playhouse

FROM BERKSHIRE ON STAGE
By Macey Levin

Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” is a theatrical phenomenon and said to be the longest running play in the world.  Based on a radio play created from real events, it opened in London in 1952 and closed for a year due to the Covid pandemic. It reopened in 2021 and has been performed over thirty thousand times. This perennial crowd pleaser is perfect for Sharon Playhouse’s intimate theater space as they close out the 2025 summer season.

Giles (Reid Sinclair) and Mollie Ralston (Dana Domenick) who are the new owners of The Monkswell Inn, an hour outside London, nervously prepare to welcome their first guests. While Mollie is listening to the radio, a London murder is described which seems to throw her out of sorts.  Nonetheless, the guests, a motley group of people of varying ages and backgrounds, arrive during a blizzard and gather in the living room.  Christopher Wren (Will Nash Broyles,) a young man, is the first to arrive.  He is followed by Mrs. Boyle (Sandy York) and Major McGrath (Dick Terhune) who, though strangers, arrive together in a taxi due to the storm.  The last expected guest to appear is Miss Casewell (Caroline Kinsolving) a somewhat mannish young woman.  A Mr. Paravinci (Ricky Oliver,) with a foreign accent and affected European manners, stumbles in after his car has overturned in the storm, or so he says.