The Mousetrap

[aiaiaiaiboy]

Am i right in thinking that there is more than one ending to Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap?

[Ward-Minter]

When you see the play, the directors kindly ask you to keep the ending quiet. It will spoil it for everybody if the plot is mentioned.

As an avid theatre goer, I suggest you pull the thread. But to answer your question, no, there is only oneending I am aware of.

[shaneystar2]

The original Mousetrap was a 30-minute radio play, Three Blind Mice, presented by the BBC in honor of the late Queen Mary's 80th birthday, in 1947. As far as I know the play has the same ending everytime but you mustn't tell as W-M says!
They change the cast each year .
The radio version may have had a different ending.
You have to go and see it !

[spudqueen]

Funnily enough a friend and I went together to see the Mousetrap some 20 odd years ago, but we now remember different endings, only one of us can be right as we were at the same performance!

[shammydodger]

So was it the butler or not?

[shaneystar2]

No ...it was Colonel Mustard in the drawing room.

[shaneystar2]

Or ...was it the Reverend Green in the Billiard Room ?

[RogK]

The play "And Then There Were None" has a different ending to Christie's book - except that the recent West End production went back to her story and had her sad ending rather than the usual happy one.

[aiaiaiaiboy]

Maybe I was imagining that it had different endings then. I asked my brother to see if he had the same ending when he went to see it...he didn't even remember going! Maybe I'll go again in another 54 years to see if it is the same.

As for the And Then there Were None - I have seen various film versions, and they have had different endings to each other, and the book. I prefer the book ending myself.