EBBEN A HÓNAPBAN – Timeless and Charming: The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap is a real record-holder. It has been running for more than 70 years and has been performed almost 30,000 times and still counting. It has been the longest-running theatre performance ever and St. Martin’s Theatre in London is still packed to capacity whenever The Mousetrap is on with people wanting to solve the murder mystery of ’whodunit’, although it plays nine performances a week at the theatre. The Mousetrap is more than a play. It’s a British institution. Three Blind Mice The Mousetrap was originally a 1947 radio play titled Three Blind Mice. Agatha Christie wrote the story for the mystery-loving Queen Mary’s 80th birthday. After extensive reworking, Three Blind Mice became The Mousetrap and was ready for a live audience. The play took its title from a play with the same title performed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It was first on stage at the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 November 1952, so the play took to the stage the year Queen Elizabeth II took to the throne. In 2022 they celebrated their Golden Jubilee year together. The Mousetrap original production has never closed in London. The play ran at the Ambassadors Theatre until 23 March 1974, […]