Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre opens on June 24th
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is theatrical Bisto: traditional, familiar and very British. It’s a play so well constructed that all you have to do is add water and the meat juices – in the form of jobbing actors, actually – and it works. Now in its 60th year, The Mousetrap is the longest-running play in the world and, for many visitors to London, a must-see along with Madame Tussauds and the Tower of London. It is full of eccentricities, including the fact that Christie gave the royalties from The Mousetrap to her grandson, Mathew Prichard, when he was nine years old.
