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Spiegel’s determination to bring back The Mousetrap feels apt because it has always been a producer-driven phenomenon, says Laura Thompson, author of an insightful biography, Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life. “When people ask why the play is so popular,” she says, “I’d probably answer, ‘Peter Saunders.’” After opening the show in 1952, the impresario “made The Mousetrap the subject of one of the cleverest publicity campaigns of the 20th century, as Agatha herself recognised. ‘Hell at the Savoy’ was what she called the annual parties thrown to celebrate another year of the play’s run. But she liked Saunders very much and fully acknowledged he was a genius in a particular field.”
Thompson points out an irony in the extraordinary longevity of this Christie tale: “The Mousetrap was never highly regarded by her agent.” He much preferred two other stage works, The Hollow and Witness for the Prosecution, written on either side of this snowbound house mystery. “He actually expressed a fear that The Mousetrap might damage her stage reputation in the US were it to be produced there.”
Christie was much more prolific as a novelist than as a dramatist, but Thompson sees a connection: “Her books are very theatrical in themselves – very little description, a lot of dialogue with scant interconnective tissue. That was the way in which her mind naturally worked. She had an instinctive theatrical sensibility.”
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The Mousetrap is generally regarded as a lure for tourists, of whom there will inevitably be fewer this summer, but Spiegel says: “That The Mousetrap is a tourist destination is a bit of a myth. Our analysis of the data is that a third of the audience is foreign tourists, a third domestic tourism, and a third Londoners. One of the gambles the industry is taking is that – for the next 12 months – domestic tourism will take the place of international visitors.”
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