The Mousetrap

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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

SCENE 1   The following morning

SCENE 2   The same day. Afternoon

ACT III

SCENE 1   The same day. Evening

SCENE 2   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.

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