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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Chris Wiegand Stage editor

Love The Traitors and Only Murders in the Building? Visit The Mousetrap, says bold new director of West End perennial

Director Ola Ince in rehearsals for The Mousetrap.
Looking for cues … director Ola Ince in rehearsals for The Mousetrap. Photograph: Danny Kaan

Audiences left hungry for more suspense after the nail-biting Celebrity Traitors finale should visit the ultimate murder mystery, The Mousetrap, its new director has suggested.

Ola Ince has taken charge of Agatha Christie’s indomitable whodunnit, the world’s longest-running play, which is in its 73rd year in London’s West End. The director, acclaimed for her bracing takes on Shakespeare, said Christie’s drama about a group of strangers snowed in at a remote guesthouse with a killer at large is “juicier” than she had previously imagined.

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