The Mousetrap March 7-9, 2003 A mystery by Agatha Christie. Produced in special arrangement with Samuel French. The Cast  |  The Crew  | From the Director  |  Special Thanks The world's longest-running play, celebrating its 50th anniversary! This whodunnit is set in an English manor house renovated into a bed and breakfast, where eight people are stranded in a blizzard.  After one of them is murdered, paranoia and suspicion mounts among the others as the killer is expected to strike again. Recognized by the Theatre Association of New York State with a Meritorious Achievement Award for successfully creating the production environment through noteworthy technical design and execution, presented to Diane Kerner Arnett, Jeremy Garris, Clare Blatz, Nancy Coder and Pottsy. (click here for details)

The Crew

Director	Diane Kerner Arnett
Producer, Assistant Director, and Costumes	Nanci Garris
Technical Director & Set Designer	Jeremy Garris
Assistant Technical Director	Rebekah Blair
Stage Manager & Rehearsal Assistant	Jeffrey Carson
Assistant Stage Manager	Jody Randolph
Stage Hand	Sarah Yohe
Gaffer	Jessica Yohe
Lights	Anthony Atti
Sound & Sound Engineering	Pottsy
Prop Mistress & Set Dresser	Nancy Coder
Props	Clare Blatz
Set Construction	Dave Arnett, Nikki DeForno, Dave Garris, Savannah Klunder, Jamie Lackey, Chris Mackowski, Lori Vickery
Publicity Chair	Sharie Radzavich
P.R.	Peggy Karrasch, Chris Mackowski
Research Historian/Writer	Robert J. Thomson
Hair Stylist	Gerri Burrs of the Hairpen
Box Office	Betsy Matz
Hospitality	Dick and Carol Marcott
Artwork	Dan Wintermantel & Studio 4 East
Printing	Ferguson Printing

From the Director
Diane Kerner Arnett

Great Britain was shell-shocked and war-weary when Agatha Christie wrote the radio play "Three Blind Mice" as a present to Queen Mary from the BBC, who had asked Her Majesty to choose a birthday gift. The government rations on clothing, nylons, sweets, meats, dairy, and more continued. Britons were urged to "Make Do and Mend."

Renamed "The Mousetrap," the play premiered November 25, 1952 in London at the Ambassadors Theatre. Even with a move to St. Martin’s Theatre in 1974, the show has never closed, despite the Queen of Crime’s own prediction it would run eight months at most.

Asked why it endured, Christie said: "…there is a bit of something in it for everybody."

There are some deep questions in the show: Can we ever really know another person? How do we best deal with personal tragedy? What price revenge?

But mostly this is a jolly good whodunit puzzler with lots of laughs and a cast of characters who, as Mollie describes them, are "all either unpleasant or odd."

Our set and our dialogue for this show are as near to the original as possible. Our pre-show ’40s music and BBC news bits are original to this production as a way to help you mentally journey back to 1949.

So, please enjoy. Like Dame Agatha, we have "simply been out to entertain."

On behalf of the cast and crew, thank you for coming and thanks to our families. As for myself, special thanks go to Bob for getting me back into community theatre, to Chris for keeping me there, and to Friday Fellowship, without whom this would never have been attempted.

Special Thanks:

Clare, Greg & Sarah Blatz	Bradford Area Public Library	The Bradford Era	Bradford Family YMCA
Bisett Building Center	Dr. Kevin Ewert and the  Pitt-Bradford Theatre Department	Jan & Rick Frederick	Debbie Harsen
Hill Memorial U. M. Church	Horizons Gift Shop	Kiwanis Club of Bradford	Long Art Company
Alan Mackenzie	Amy McCune	Paul Nelson	SACKS Resale Shop
Liz Sefton	Studio Arena Theatre	The Times Herald	Toronto Truck Theatre
Wells Signs	Zippo Manufacturing Co.
Thanks to our ticket outlets:	Brausers	Graham Florist	Horizon’s
	Ott & McHenry Pharmacy	Tina’s Hallmark

Lobby photography courtesy of Melvin Photography

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