"""The Mousetrap"" was revealed online in the play's Wikipedia article. Duncan Leatherdale of BBC News contrasted the play to other works like ""Psycho"" and ""The Sixth Sense"", where the plot twist has been revealed and became itself an element of popular culture. The play is set in the Great Hall of Monkswell Manor, in what Christie described as ""the present"". Act I opens with the murder of a woman named Maureen Lyon, played out in sound only. The action then moves to Monkswell Manor, recently converted to a guesthouse and run by a young couple, Mollie and Giles Ralston. While"
"his doubtless ill-gotten gains, and also apologize to Florence for trying to force her into marriage. He also demands Coyle's resignation as the steward of Trenchard Manor, making Murcott steward instead. Murcott is so pleased that he vows to stop drinking. Coyle has no choice but to do all this. Florence marries Harry, Dundreary marries Georgina, and Augusta marries an old beau. Even the servants marry. The play's most famous performance was at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The cast modified a line of the play in honor of Abraham Lincoln: when the heroine asked for"
"Ordsall Hall Ordsall Hall is a large former manor house in the historic parish of Ordsall, Lancashire, England, now part of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester. It dates back more than 750 years, although the oldest surviving parts of the present hall were built in the 15th century. The most important period of Ordsall Hall's life was as the family seat of the Radclyffe family, who lived in the house for more than 300 years. The hall was the setting for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1842 novel ""Guy Fawkes"", written around the plausible although unsubstantiated local story that the"
"Singular"" (1975), ""The Norman Conquests"" trilogy (1973), ""Bedroom Farce"" (1975), ""Just Between Ourselves"" (1976), ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" (1984), ""Woman in Mind"" (1985), ""A Small Family Business"" (1987), ""Man Of The Moment"" (1988), ""House"" & ""Garden"" (1999) and ""Private Fears in Public Places"" (2004). His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London ""Evening Standard"" Awards. They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world. Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award. Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London. His mother Irene"
"as Tredwell ""Jonathan Coote"" as Lemoine ""Jacqueline Dutoit"" as Old Lady ""Robin Harvey Edwards"" as Lord Caterham ""Michele Gallagher"" as Lady Eileen Brent ""Martyn James"" as The Hon. George Lomax ""Jonathan Dryden Taylor"" as Bill Eversleigh ""Darrell Brockis"" as Anthony Cade ""Flora Berkeley"" as Virginia Revel ""Richard Addison"" as the Stranger ""Ronald Simon"" as Superintendent Battle ""Matthew Lloyd Davies"" as Herbert Banks ""Richard Galazka"" as Boris Anchoukoff Chimneys (play) Chimneys is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie and is based upon her own 1925 novel ""The Secret of Chimneys"". The play was written in 1931 and was due to"
"with such productions as Norman Nicholson's ""The Old Man of the Mountains"", Ronald Duncan's ""This Way to the Tomb"" and Anne Ridler's ""The Shadow Factory"". These were followed by comedies in verse: Christopher Fry's ""A Phoenix too Frequent"" and Donagh MacDonagh's ""Happy as Larry"". In 1947 Saroyan's ""The Beautiful People"" and O'Neill's ""SS Glencairn"" both had their London premières there, as did Genet's ""The Maids"". In the early 1950s it was home to ""Ballet Workshop"" and from 1956 was used mainly by the Ballet Rambert School until finally closed in 1987. The theatre and the Ballet Rambert appear in Powell"
"those already mentioned, prominent characters include: The title comes from the name of the Seymour family seat at Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire; the title's allusion to the old Latin saying ""Homo homini lupus"" (""Man is wolf to man"") serves as a constant reminder of the dangerously opportunistic nature of the world through which Cromwell navigates. In January 2013, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) announced that it would stage adaptations by Mike Poulton of ""Wolf Hall"" and ""Bring Up the Bodies"" in its Winter season. The production transferred to London's Aldwych Theatre in May 2014, for a limited run until"
"Fowelscombe Fowelscombe (anciently Vowelscombe) is an historic manor in the parish of Ugborough in Devon, England. The large ancient manor house known as Fowelscombe House survives only as an ivy-covered ""romantic ruin"" overgrown by trees and nettles, situated 1 mile south-east of the village of Ugborough. The ruins are a Grade II listed building. It is believed to be one of three possible houses on which Conan Doyle based his ""Baskerville Hall"" in his novel ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", (1901–02) the others being Hayford Hall (also owned by John King (died 1861) of Fowelscombe) and Brook Manor. In the"
"play ""The Life and Death of Jack Straw"", published in London in 1593, which deals with the events of the Peasants' Revolt. William Morris wrote a short story called ""Two extracts from a dream of John Ball"", which was serialised in the ""Commonweal"" between November 1886 and February 1887. It was published in book form in 1888. English songwriter Sydney Carter wrote an eponymously titled song about Ball that has been recorded by a number of artists. 'Sing John Ball' is regularly performed in the UK by folk musicians including The Young' Uns, The Melrose Quartet, and in 2015 the"
"Maiden Castle (novel) Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys was first published in 1936 and is the last of Powys so-called Wessex novels, following ""Wolf Solent"" (1929), ""A Glastonbury Romance"" (1932), ""Weymouth Sands"" (1934). Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex. American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels ""as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time"". ""Maiden Castle"" is set in Dorchester, Dorset Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which Powys intended to be a ""rival"" to Hardy's ""Mayor of Casterbridge"". Glen Cavaliero describes Dorchester"
"Wolf Hall Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family seat of Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, ""Wolf Hall"" is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, ""The Observer"" named it as one of ""The 10 best historical novels"". The book is"
"neighbouring Cotswold Hills to be bought and sold. Today it is the restaurant centre of the town. The Shrieves House is one of the oldest still lived in houses in the town and Shakespeare is said to have based his character of Sir John Falstaff on one of the residents, his godson's uncle. Oliver Cromwell is thought to have stayed here in 1651. He wrote a letter from the town to Lord Wharton on 27 August 1651, before the Battle of Worcester. Behind The Shrieves House is a museum called ""Tudor World"" with recreations of 16th century life in theatrical"
"Alice Arnold, and the celebrity duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. The novel ""Vanity Fair"" (1847/8) by William Makepeace Thackeray opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies in Chiswick Mall. Louis N. Parker's play ""Pomander Walk"" (1915) has the imagined setting of ""a retired crescent of five very small, old-fashioned houses near Chiswick, on the river-bank. ... They are exactly alike: miniature copies of Queen Anne mansions"". Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy (1924/28) contains many scenes set in Chiswick, where the Wannop family resides. The BBC adaptation of the literary work featured filming on Bedford Park's Woodstock Road."
"The Norman Conquests The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. Each of the plays depicts the same six characters over the same weekend in a different part of a house. ""Table Manners"" is set in the dining room, ""Living Together"" in the living room, and ""Round and Round the Garden"" in the garden. The plays were first performed in Scarborough, before runs in London and on Broadway. A television version was first broadcast in the UK during October 1977. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only six"
"Goodwin, Earl Osmond - Martyn Stanbridge, Angela - Mali Harries, Old Allan/Reginald, Earl of Conwy - Frank Ellis, Muley - Nick Wilton, Hassan - Clive Llewellyn. The Castle Spectre The Castle Spectre is a 1797 dramatic romance in five acts by Matthew ""Monk"" Lewis. It is a Gothic drama set in medieval Conway, Wales. ""The Castle Spectre"" was first performed at the , on 14 December 1797. In a period when very few plays reached ten performances in a season, it was staged forty-seven times before June, when the theatre closed for the summer. The play had a long run"
"play's most memorable scene has Crockett use his arm to bar the hut's door against howling wolves. The uncle is later revealed to be evil and forcing the marriage, so Crockett is able to marry Eleanor. Though often cited as a prominent example of a frontier drama, the play is more of a standard melodrama set in a frontier location. The play has been called ""one of the most revered plays of the nineteenth-century American theatre."" However, its initial critical reviews were negative, though it came to achieve great success. Mayo played Crockett throughout much of the rest of his"
"Moose Murders Moose Murders is a play by Arthur Bicknell, self-described as a mystery farce. A notorious flop, it is now widely considered the standard of awfulness against which all Broadway failures are judged, and its name has become synonymous with those distinctively bad Broadway plays which open and close on the same night. It had its single performance (excluding its 13 previews) at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on February 22, 1983. The Holloway family arrives at the ""Wild Moose Lodge"", which they have recently purchased, in the Adirondack Mountains. They soon find themselves trapped there during a storm, along"
"and running for 336 performances. It starred George Grossmith, Jr. as Lord Bicester, Edmund Payne as Floot and Phyllis Dare as Delia Dale. It also had a Broadway run in 1913 at the Knickerbocker Theatre starring Grossmith's in-law, Vernon Castle. Port Sunlight is the real life suburb on which the setting of the musical is based. The show introduced the tango to British audiences. The hero, Vernon Blundell, has inherited the great ""Sunshine"" Soap Factory at Port Sunshine, but in the will his uncle inserted a clause that Vernon must not be engaged or married before the expiration of five"
"Herbert Wise and produced by Verity Lambert and David Susskind. Keith won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for her performance. The Norman Conquests The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. Each of the plays depicts the same six characters over the same weekend in a different part of a house. ""Table Manners"" is set in the dining room, ""Living Together"" in the living room, and ""Round and Round the Garden"" in the garden. The plays were first performed in Scarborough, before runs in London and on Broadway. A television version was"
"be broadcast in 2015. On 8 March 2013, the BBC reported that Mark Rylance had been cast as Thomas Cromwell. The first episode was broadcast in the United States on PBS's ""Masterpiece Theatre"", on 5 April 2015. In June 2015, Amazon announced exclusive rights to stream ""Masterpiece"" programs, including ""Wolf Hall"", on its Amazon Prime Instant Video platform. Wolf Hall Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family seat of Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, ""Wolf Hall"" is a"
"Revenger's Tragedy"" (2005/6), ""Edward the Second"" (2007), ""Women Beware Women"" (2008), ""The Duchess of Malfi"" (2010), ""The Witch of Edmonton"" (2011), ""The Maids"" (2012), ""Volpone"" (2012), ""Loot"" (2014), ""The Mystery of Irma Vep"" (2014), ""'Tis Pity She's a Whore"" (2015), ""The Changeling"" (2016), ""The School for Scandal"" (2016), ""Coriolanus"" (2016), ""The Government Inspector"" (2017). Red Bull Theatre The Red Bull was an inn-yard conversion erected in Clerkenwell, London operating in the 17th century. For more than four decades, it entertained audiences drawn primarily from the City and its suburbs, developing a reputation over the years for rowdiness. After Parliament closed"
"mitigate the Baron's previous conduct. Frederick, and then Anhalt, insist to the Baron that he must marry Agatha. After some agitation because of the social differences between them, he agrees, and in gratitude to Anhalt for his advice, agrees also to let him marry Amelia despite his poverty. Agatha enters the room and all are reconciled. Lovers' Vows Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel ""Mansfield Park"" (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's ""Das Kind der Liebe"" (1780; literally ""Love Child,"""
"of over a year. It has had several revivals, and was subsequently made into a multi-Academy Award-winning 1966 feature film and a 1988 television movie. The plot is based on the historical events leading up to the execution of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Chancellor of England, who refused to endorse King Henry VIII's wish to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon, who did not bear him a son, so that he could marry Anne Boleyn, the sister of his former mistress. The play portrays More as a man of principle, envied by rivals such as Thomas Cromwell and loved"
"the Catskill Mountains, in New York, across a lake from a resort. Her daughter, Lili Adler, is a socially awkward 20-year old who feels trapped by her mother's constant attention. Lili meets Nick Lockridge, an aspiring architect who is engaged to a woman from a wealthy family. Lili and Nick develop a romantic relationship over the course of the summer. Eva, Lili's controlling mother, is against any relationship and works to discredit Nick. Michael Billington, in his review of the 2013 Theatre Royal Bath production for ""The Guardian"", wrote: ""But what makes the play so compelling is Greenberg's ambivalent view"
"Jack Popplewell Jack Popplewell (22 March 1909 – 16 November 1996) was an English writer and playwright. Popplewell was born and grew up in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. He published his first song in 1940, and his first play, ""Blind Alley"" was staged in London in 1953. ""Blind Alley"" opened to positive reviews, and was later adapted to the cinema in ""Tread Softly, Stranger"", released in 1958, and starring Diana Dors and George Baker. Popplewell owned Manor Farm, Churwell, Leeds, where he farmed rhubarb, later moving with his wife, Betty, and two daughters (Juliet and Vanessa) to Vaynol Gate,"
"themes of the 'play within a play'. Stoppard's play is an example of absurdism as well as farce, parody, and satire. While the story is set in a theatre, the play within the play is set in Muldoon Manor, a lavish manor surrounded by ""desolate marshes"" and ""treacherous swamps"" and paradoxically also located near a cliff. It is a direct parody of Agatha Christie’s ""closed"" settings in which no one can enter or leave, so the characters know that the murderer must be one of them. The manor itself is described as having French windows and a large settee. The"
"Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green (occasionally referred to as just ""Ecchinswell and Sydmonton"") is a civil parish within the district of Basingstoke and Deane in Hampshire, United Kingdom. Sydmonton is the home of Sydmonton Court, estate of the Kingsmill Family, including Admiral Sir Robert Kingsmill. The estate is currently owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is home to the annual Sydmonton Festival. Watership Down, location of the famous Richard Adams novel of the same name, is just South of Ecchinswell. Ladle Hill on Great Litchfield Down, also lies to the south. Part of the hill"
"been treating her abusively. Boconnion, a military deserter wanted on charges of killing a man, and the tramp Tovey arrive. Boconnion, Tovey and Rosalind conspire to kill Braxton, and carry out this plan. The three steal Braxton's riches and begin to celebrate their new wealth, planning to escape with it as well. A group of itinerant actors then arrives at the manor. Boconnion agrees to give them shelter, in return for entertainment. The troupe bears a resemblance to actors who had visited the manor centuries earlier. The actors present their newest play, ""The Mines of Sulphur"", about an elderly count"
"courts and the swimming pool. The new primary school was built in 1875 and the railway line from Buckfastleigh and Ashburton to Totnes was opened. Pennywell Farm is an organic farm and tourist attraction just outside the town. To the west of the town is the manor house of Brook, a grade II* listed building, built in 1656 by Richard Cabell (d.1677), lord of the manor of Brook. He was the subject of a local legend which relates that on the night of his death, black hounds breathing fire and smoke raced over Dartmoor and surrounded Brook House, howling. Cabbell's"
"public house made famous by Charles Dickens, who used it as a basis for The Maypole, a tavern in his novel ""Barnaby Rudge"". As well as being the residence of the Metropolitan Police's sports and social club, the house is also used for business functions, wedding ceremonies, and is the venue of a restaurant. Pevsner describes the hall as ""especially good, surprising in its freshness and looking as it might well [have been built] twenty-five years later"". Chigwell Hall, Essex Chigwell Hall is a Grade II listed Manor House in Chigwell, Essex. It is situated on Roding Lane within 42"
"out that the possession was fabricated and instead praises Terence's motives. Harold meets again with his foreman but, despite Terence's advice to the contrary, goes ahead with the pit closure. He then settles down to read the diary and a moment later sees the ghost of his dead son. Bracken Moor Bracken Moor is a 2013 play by the British playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell. It is premiering at the Tricycle Theatre in London (in a co-production with Shared Experience directed by Polly Teale) from 6 June 2013 to 20 July 2013, with its press night on 14 June. Harold, a"
"Hall in New York and a staged performance at Wexford Festival Opera in 2015. Mascagni often wrote that ""Ratcliff"" was his best opera. However, it has not entered the standard operatic repertoire, in part because the title role is one of the most taxing tenor parts ever written. It is especially known for its act 3 ""Intermezzo"", which features prominently in the Martin Scorsese film ""Raging Bull"". (Heine's play was also used as the basis for César Cui's 1869 opera of the same name and for Volkmar Andreae's 1914 opera ""Ratcliff"".) Count Douglas, Maria's betrothed, arrives at the Castle of"
"Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays is a play written by Alan Ayckbourn in 1988. It relies heavily on the audience for many scenes inside Mr Accousticus' house. Summary: The story begins with young Susie/Suzy being given a puppy (Neville) as a gift from her kind mother. Her father disappeared while taking part in the Great International Balloon Race and hasn't been seen since. Soon after, Mr Constantine Accousticus moves into the large mansion across the road. Strange events occur soon after, noticed by Suzy and loyal Neville (Like birds losing their song and their neighbor"