Since 1952, The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit and the world’s longest-running play (they have even had to reupholster the couch in the London production), has entertained an estimated 10-million people.
This year, just before its 60th anniversary, Pieter Toerien staged a production with an all-South African cast. The run ends on Sunday, so this is your last opportunity to catch it. In the play, a snowbound group of visitors is trapped in a guesthouse with a murderer in their midst. He has already killed, and then he strikes again. The tension is razor-sharp: everyone is under suspicion, everyone a potential victim.
Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, until February 26. Performances are on Thursday and Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 5pm and 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. Book at Computicket. Tel: 011?511?1818.