The world’s longest running play ‘The Mousetrap’ is back in London Theatre this Monday after a year

After almost a year of pause, London’s St Martin’s theatre is set to show Agatha Christie’s “Mousetrap” to a live audience this Monday onwards.

The actress Barbara Drennan expresses her opinion, “I just think there’s a richness that it brings to people’s lives that as much as box sets and Netflix have looked after us, there’s nothing like this … and getting caught in some escapism.”

As  England relaxes COVID restrictions, “And I think after the year that we’ve had, we all desperately need to get back to that.”

The social distancing guidelines would be kept in mind, with the theatre housing only 50% of its audience capacity.

The Mousetrap producer, Adam Spiegel stated to Reuters, “I’ve always thought that it was really important symbolically that ‘The Mousetrap’ re-open the West End.”

“So although financially this is unsustainable for a long period of time, I made the decision that I thought it was worth doing, first of all, to get everyone back to work and secondly to say right the West End is open for business again”, he added.

Adapting to the COVID conditions, the play has two substitute casts, “Marple” and “Poirot” to act instead of any infected actors.

“The excitement is there,” Derek Griffiths, the actor said. “The anxiousness is there and the hope that everything will go well.”