I had the pleasure of joining the Vagabond Players on their opening night of Agatha Christie’s famous classic who-done-it, The Mousetrap. Perhaps the Vagabond Players decided to include The Mousetrap in their 97th Season because both the Players and the play have much in common. The Vagabond Players is “America’s Oldest Continuous Little Theatre” and The Mousetrap is on its 60th year of continued performance in the United Kingdom, making The Mousetrap the longest running show, of any kind, in the world.
This play was first conceived in 1947 as a 30-minute radio piece at the special request of Queen Mary to Agatha Christie for a new play. Originally, she titled the piece Three Blind Mice, because her fascination with children’s nursery rhymes that always seemed to bind folklore with hints of the macabre. Consequently, while Christie’s play became a classic thriller, under this traditional surface lurks the suggestion of terrible tragedy.
Read more at MD Theatre Guide at http://www.mdtheatreguide.com/2013/01/theatre-review-agathas-christies-t...
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