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Rather than a sleepy November matinee, perhaps I should have opted for the current touring version at Southampton's Mayflower, where it played to 2,strong houses for a week.
This also explains why there has never been a film. The play is a curious mixture of s drawing-room comedy and murder mystery. The key, says Watt-Smith, is not to send it up. Everyone is trapped in this guesthouse — they have no means of contacting the outside world, and the murderer is among them.
No one is quite what they seem. They all have secrets. You have to encourage the characters to play the real backstory and then cover it up, which is a challenge. Waley-Cohen adds: "It works because it's in period and it's done absolutely straight. It's not knowing or camp. We hope the actors are playing it as if it was a new play set in The next evening, I see The Mousetrap again, but this time backstage, sitting with the actors. They make me feel very welcome, showing me the "snow room", where every visitor to Monkswell Manor gets a heavy coating of white flakes made from carpet foam before going on stage; they even offer to let me crank the historic wind machine as used in the original production and take me to a Soho pub afterwards for their traditional Wednesday night sing-song.
Natasha Rickman, who graduated from Rada last year, can claim even closer allegiance to that tradition: she is playing Miss Casewell, as her mother, Miranda Bell, did in the play's 33rd year. Andrew Bone, who makes an admirable job of old buffer Major Metcalf, says one reason he took the part — apart from guaranteed work for a year — was "the chance to see this thing called The Mousetrap from the inside". His conclusion? Performances until 4 July are on sale with social distancing, while we await further government guidance.
Once government guidelines allow, The Mousetrap will play to a full capacity auditorium. Christie then expanded Three Blind Mice from a twenty minute radio play into a full length stage play, adding some extra characters and a fuller background and plot. The title was changed and The Mousetrap was created. Before it opened, Agatha Christie gave the rights to The Mousetrap to her nine year old grandson, Mathew Prichard, without any idea that it would become a huge record breaking phenomenon.
The Mousetrap opened on 25th November , produced by Peter Saunders.
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