Archive: This review was first published on March 26, 2013 by the Daily Post
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the longest running stage play in the world, and this year marks its 60th birthday by going on tour around the UK for the first time ever.
It's a very traditional play, a typical Christie plot and set-up. Giles and Mollie Ralston (Bruno Langley and Jemma Walker) are a young couple who decide to open their own guest house, despite not being well experienced in the role. Monkswell Manor is a fusty old house with wood panelling and back stairs and all those trappings that make for a good old whodunnit.
Various guests start to arrive as the snow falls heavily outside, eventually cutting them off from the outside world.
But following a telephone call from the police, it soon becomes clear there is a murderer on the loose, and it is thought the killer is heading to the guest house to carry out their twisted Three Blind Mice death spree.
