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The Moustrap follows the story of seven strangers who find themselves snowed in at Monkswell Manor, a stately countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover—to their horror—a killer is in their midst.
One by one, the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts. Which one is the murderer? But apart from Attenborough and Sim, few players have been headliners. The Mousetrap is not a star vehicle; the play and its author are the stars. The drama became the longest-running show in British theatre history as early as April plays back then didn't run for as long as they do now. From that point on, says producer Stephen Waley-Cohen, "it began to develop its own momentum". They liken it to Madame Tussauds and the Changing of the Guard — something you have to catch if you visit London.
But the audience is not, as conventional wisdom suggests, made up mainly of foreign tourists. The majority are from other parts of the UK; for them, The Mousetrap is part of the London experience. It's like some quasi-religious ritual, with the audience as much a part of proceedings as the cast. Geoff Bullen , the current director, accepts it is a rite of passage, but insists it works as theatre, too.
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.
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