When I was twelve years old, my parents took my little sister and me on a four-week round-trip with our trailer in England and Wales. It was during that trip that we spent one night in Covent Garden and watched the world’s longest-running play, Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap. The setting is Monkswell Manor in rural Berkshire during a snow storm. Only recently, this manor has been converted into a bed & breakfast. Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap: as English as tweed, mansions, and bad weather I remember quite vividly how the play epitomized Englishness to me. Of course the location had to be a castle-like mansion, not an inner-city apartment. The location had to be in the countryside, not in town. The weather had to be bad, it couldn’t be sunny. Everyone was wearing proper clothes like tweed jackets, sturdy coats, Oxford shoes, plaid socks. They couldn’t just rock up in jeans or […]
Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap – The world’s longest-running play
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