The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap

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Contents

       And Then There Were None

            Act One

            Act Two

            Act Three

       Appointment with Death

            Act One

            Act Two

            Act Three

       The Hollow

            Act One

            Act Two

            Act Three

       The Mousetrap

            Act One

            Act Two

       Witness for the Prosecution

            Act One

            Act Two

            Act Three

       Towards Zero

            Act One

            Act Two

            Act Three

       Verdict

            Act One

            Act Two

       Go Back for Murder

            Act One

            Act Two

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And Then There Were None

Presented by Bertie Meyer at the St. James’ Theatre, London, on 17th November 1943, with the following cast of characters:

(in the order of their appearance)

 

ROGERS

William Murray

 

 

NARRACOTT

Reginald Barlow

 

 

MRS. ROGERS

Hilda Bruce-Potter

 

 

VERA CLAYTHORNE

Linden Travers

 

 

PHILIP LOMBARD

Terence de Marney

 

 

ANTHONY MARSTON

Michael Blake

 

 

WILLIAM BLORE

Percy Walsh

 

 

GENERAL MACKENZIE

Eric Cowley

 

 

EMILY BRENT

Henrietta Watson

 

 

SIR LAWRENCE WARGRAVE

Allan Jeayes

 

 

DR. ARMSTRONG

Gwyn Nicholls

 

The play directed by Irene Hentschel

Décor by Clifford Pember

The scene of the play is the living room of the house on Indian Island, off the coast of Devon

ACT I

An evening in August

ACT II

SCENE1   The following morning

SCENE2   The same day. Afternoon

ACT III

SCENE1   The same day. Evening

SCENE2   The following morning

Time: the present

ACT ONE

SCENE: The scene is the living room of the house on Indian Island. It is a very modern room, and luxuriously furnished. It is a bright sunlit evening. Nearly the whole of the back of the stage is a window looking directly out to sea. French doors are open in Centre to balcony. It should give the impression of being like the deck of a liner almost overhanging the sea. There is a chair out Right on the balcony, and the main approach to the house is presumed to be up steps on the Left side of the balcony. There are also presumed to be steps on the Right of the balcony, but these are not the direct way up from the landing stage, but are supposed to lead around the house and up behind it, since the house is supposed to be built against the side of a steep hill. The French doors are wide so that a good area of the balcony is shown.

In the Left, near windows, is a door to dining room. Down stage Left is a door communicating with hall. Pull cord below this door.

Up Right is a door to study. Middle stage Right is fireplace. Over it hangs the reproduction of the “Ten Little Indians” nursery rhyme. On the mantelpiece are a group of ten china Indian figures. They are not spaced out, but clustered so that the exact number is not easily seen.