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Now showing at the St Martins Theatre

Treat yourself to one of the West End’s most popular theatre shows, an Agatha Christie classic that’ll have you on the edge of your seat as the mystery unfolds. The setting: a country hotel, where the guests are snowed in with a murderer in their midst. Who did the dirty deed? The Mousetrap is an intricate, complex tale of dark deeds that’s loved by audiences from all over the world.

One of only a handful of privately owned theatres in the West End, St Martin’s was founded by the 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke, a keen hunter and politician who became a theatre manager with the encouragement of his good friend, Bertie Meyer.

He had a taste for the boards, nurtured through amateurdramatic productions put on at the family home, Compton Verney in Warwickshire, which grew during his time in London as an MP and member of the House of Lords.

When it first opened, St Martin’s was known as a cosy family theatre perfect for putting on small, intimate plays. As such it was the perfect venue for the infamous 1950s smash hit, The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie, which moved there from the Ambassadors Theatre, just next door, in the mid 1970s.

Almost a century later St Martin’s Theatre is still owned by the Willoughby de Brokes family, and was still receiving guidance from the Meyer family until 1991. The exterior of the building was restored in the late 1990s to its original splendour, with a replica of the original 1916