The Mousetrap and Other Plays

Towards Zero

Presented by Peter Saunders at the James’s Theatre, London, on the 4th September, 1956, with the following cast of characters:

(In the order of their appearance)

THOMAS ROYDE

Cyril Raymond

KAY STRANGE

Mary Law

MARY ALDIN

Gillian Lind

MATTHEW TREVES

Frederick Leister

NEVILE STRANGE

George Baker

LADY TRESSILIAN

Janet Barrow

AUDREY STRANGE

Gwen Cherrell

TED LATIMER

Michael Scott

SUPERINTENDENT BATTLE, C.I.D.,

Scotland Yard

William Kendall

INSPECTOR LEACH, local C.I.D.

Max Brimmell

P. C. BENSON

Michael Nightingale

Directed by MURRAY MACDONALD

Décor by MICHAEL WEIGHT

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

The action of the play passes in the drawing room at Gull’s Point, Lady Tressilian’s house at Saltcreek, Cornwall.

ACT I

SCENE 1: A morning in September.

SCENE 2: After dinner, four days later.

ACT II

SCENE 1: Early the following morning.

SCENE 2: Two hours later.

ACT III

SCENE 1: The next morning.

SCENE 2: The same evening.

TIME: The present