I’ve waited sixty years to find out whodunit in Dame Agatha
Christie’s famous play, The Mousetrap, and by the interval I realised that I
couldn’t care less!
Maybe in 1953 when this murder mystery was first performed,
theatregoers expectation were much lower than they are today. This trivial
piece may have worked in the fifties, but it sure doesn’t work anymore. I was
bored witless within half an hour, and worked out who the killer was long
before the dénouement.
How this very average production has survived for so long, I
have no idea, but maybe now that it’s finally been on tour, it will be
mercifully put to sleep. It was reminiscent of watching a very ordinary am dram
play in a church hall on a cold winter’s evening in the seventies, and I’ve sat
through plenty of those over the years!
I can’t recommend anything at all about this rancid play.
Give it a miss!
4/10
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