Throughout its seven decades, The Mousetrap has had over 27,500 performances, but there’s never been a true official movie adaptation of the play prior to the release of See How They Run. It was not until 2020 that the initial run came to an end because of COVID-19, and performances resumed in 2021. “the murderer”, “the motive”, etc.).Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap was based on a short story called Three Blind Mice, and after its 1952 debut, it went on to become the longest-running play in West End history. you may hint them without revealing them directly (i.e. Instead, if you want to discuss something like whodunnit, major plot twists, etc. Please remember not to post any SPOILER ("You'll talk about it, but please don't tell the ending"!!) in your comments. As long as the adaptation ran in London’s West End (as it has for over 60 years) the short story wasn’t to be published. The short story version was never published in the UK on Christie’s insistence that it should not clash with the 1952 stage adaptation, famously renamed The Mousetrap. Agatha Christie then adapted the 30-minute radio play in 1948 to a short story, published in May in Cosmopolitan magazine, and later in the 1950 US collection Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. The radio play was first broadcast on the BBC in 1947. Unfortunately no recording of the original performance exists. She donated her fee of one hundred Guineas to the Southport Infirmary Children’s Toy Fund.
The BBC got in touch with Christie and asked if she would like to write a short radio play for the Queen, which she happily obliged to and created Three Blind Mice. When Queen Mary was asked what she would like for her 80th birthday, she requested a new story from one of her favourite writers, Agatha Christie. Snowed in, the residents of a guest house find themselves trapped with a murderer.
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