Agatha Christie wrote ‘The Mousetrap’ in 1952, adapting an earlier radio play called ‘Three Blind Mice’ into a full length stage-play with the present title. The play takes place in a small English guest-house run by a young couple: it is winter, and the house is almost completely cut off by snow. Into this setting […]

‘The Death of Humpty Dumpty’, which was first presented in Dublin in 1979, is based on Graham Reid’s personal experience in a Belfast hospital.“Graham Reid has written a play about or around the Northern conflict which transcends all the political and humanitarian cliches which have been trotted out over the last decade. It takes a […]

Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, invites the medium Madame Arcati to his house so he can learn more about the occult for a novel he is writing. Unfortunately, Madame Arcati summons the ghost of Charles’ first wife Elvira without realising she did so. Elvira plots to get Charles to join her in the afterlife, but […]