Next week in London “The Mousetrap” is to give its 20,000th performance. “Next year, assuming it continues its run, will be the play’s 50th year of continuous production. A long time ago, it ceased being an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s slighter works and became something else: a record-breaker, a curiosity, a fixture for tourists, an ambiguous example of infinite success. To a certain sort of theatre-goer or stage professional, the Mousetrap is heaven – a fragment from a lost dramatic age of polite dialogue and sets with floral sofas. To lots of other people – fans of new drama, most critics – the play is a glimpse of hell.” – The Guardian