A LEGENDARY, record-breaking, box office smash-hit thriller is heading for a Worcestershire stage later this month.

It’s none other than the The Mousetrap, which seems to have been on London’s West End for ever and a day.

Agatha Christie’s epic thriller will be appearing at Malvern’s Festival Theatre for a week’s run from Monday October 13 and will be starring Henry Luxemburg, who has appeared in television’s Doctor Who, Hollyoaks and Hotel Babylon, Chris Gilling (Law and Order) and Michael Fenner (My Family, London’s Burning and Eastenders).

The Mousetrap is famous around the world for being the longest running show of any kind in the history of British theatre, with over 25,000 performances. The production is back on tour by popular demand, to celebrate 60 incredible years on stage, following a record breaking sell out week in 2012.

The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive are finally revealed.

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.

The show runs at the Festival until Saturday, October 18.