The Mousetrap
The Mousetrap
★★★☆☆ Dependably twisting
It’s a case of new decade – same old dependability for this touring version of the long-running West End production of The Mousetrap, which has a slightly larger feel to it than when it last celebrated a decade in town.
Mousetrap hits 70
Record breaker for Edinburgh Playhouse
The world’s longest running production, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, will play the Edinburgh Playhouse in April 2023 as part of a 70 date 70th anniversary tour.
The Mousetrap
★★★☆☆ Thrilling:
The world’s longest-running stage production returns to Edinburgh to thrill a whole new audience in this classic murder mystery tale at the Playhouse until Wednesday.
The Mousetrap
★★★★☆ Blindingly Good Mice:
Agatha Christie’s legendary murder mystery, The Mousetrap, finds a stately – if temporary – home at the King’s Theatre this week.
The Mousetrap
★★★☆☆ Sturdy nostalgia:
There may be nothing new in the latest touring version of the institution that is Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, but the production gives its large audiences exactly what they are looking for.
Review – The Mousetrap
★★★☆☆ Museum piece:
It’s a plucky little touring production of the Mousetrap that has fetched up at the King’s theatre all this week. As any one of its characters might observe – in Home Counties tones so impeccably clipped that they are positively italicised – “the old gall’s got a lot of go in her yet”.
