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The Mousetrap is the longest running stage play

Agatha Christie's whodunit has been performed in London since 1952 The play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952 and has run without a break ever since, transferring to St Martin's Theatre in 1974. By 2024 it had passed 29,500 performances. Christie gave the rights to her grandson on the condition that it never be adapted for film while it ran in London, which helped protect the run. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Agatha Christie's whodunit has been performed in London since 1952. The figure is taken from The Mousetrap, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.