MOUSE TRAP

AGATHA Christie’s The Mousetrap – famous around the world as being the longest running show of any kind in the history of British Theatre, comes to Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts next week as part of its first ever UK tour and 60th anniversary celebrations.

In her own inimitable style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner. With over 23,000 performances to date The Mousetrap is a true landmark in British Theatre history.

  • The Mousetrap runs from Monday to Saturday.

THE RUSSIAN DOCTOR

A dramatisation of Anton Chekov’s epic journey to the penal colonies of 19th century Siberia, is coming to Theatre Royal Winchester next week.

The show has been devised and created by Andrew Dawson (The Articulate Hand and Space Panorama) a research fellow at the University of Winchester, and is based on an exploration of the living conditions of prisoners in Tsarist Russia.

Anton Chekhov is renowned as the most performed playwright in the world after Shakespeare, but is perhaps less known for his role in medicine. As a physician with a keen interest in social science, he exiled himself voluntarily in 1890 to explore and reveal the living conditions of prisoners on Sakhalin Island in Siberia. By studying this Tsarist penal colony he was able to document the harrowing living conditions of the exiles living there, shedding light on issues of human rights and concepts of freedom and escape. The play explores Chekov’s real motivations for selfimposed exile and how it affected him as a man and a writer.

  • The Russian Doctor is on stage on Thursday and Friday.