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The Rat Trap Off-Broadway

The Rat Trap Revival 2022

Opened: November 21, 2022
Closing: December 10, 2022

The Rat Trap - 2022 Off-Broadway History , Info & More

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II
131 West 55th Street New York, NY 10036

Noël Coward wrote The Rat Trap when he was 18—the first play he authored on his own. This remarkably mature drama tells the story of a newlywed couple looking towards a bright future together, two promising writers vowing to support and love each other through the challenges of creative and professional endeavor. Things go even worse than you might imagine. Of course, The Rat Trap shows flashes of Coward’s brilliant, brittle wit, but this play is not so much a dry martini as it is a bitter stout, dark and foamy. “When I had finished it,” he wrote in 1937, “I felt, for the first time with genuine conviction, that I could really write plays.”

The Rat Trap languished for a few years before being published in 1924. It was not produced until 1926, riding on the coattails of Coward’s success with The Vortex, Fallen Angels, and Hay Fever. Audiences expecting the scandalous decadence and high farce of these other works must have been surprised by Coward’s psychological realism. It only ran for two weeks; Coward, away from England, never even saw it. The first-ever revival came 80 years later at the Finborough in London, where it was exclaimed by the Evening Standard as “an absolute revelation.”


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Photos: Get a First Look at the American Premiere of THE RAT TRAP Off-Broadway
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 8, 2022


Mint Theater Company is presenting the American premiere of Noël Coward’s The Rat Trap, directed by Alexander Lass. Now in previews at New York City Center Stage II for a limited Off-Broadway engagement through December 10th only. Opening Night is set for Monday November 21st. Get a first look at photos here!

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