Some of Australia’s leading artistic directors have recently suggested that, in these post lockdown times, it’s the familiar that audiences crave. After three years during which the world itself became strange, we are in no mood for anything remotely “novel”.
Producer John Frost is putting that theory to the test with this production of Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit The Mousetrap. The only thing more comforting you could put on a stage would be a packet of malted milk biscuits.
