Agatha Christie Mousetrap Play Analysis

They really played up the stakes they were given; especially the Baker and his wife. Their urgency to need to lift the curse off of them was played up and caused the audience to relate to their needs. Julia Wilkinson’s portrayal of the Witch was outstanding, not only did I feel fully emersied in the world she had created with her performance. Her singing ability made her part in “Prologue” memorable and made me excited for the rest of the production. I also felt like Chase Guthrie’s performance as the Baker was on par with Julia’s. Not only was his character funny and a sense of comic relief; but in the moments of pain Chase really made the audience believe him and empathize with him. He seemed fully given over to the character which made the highs in the plot higher and the lows even more heartbreaking. I however I felt as though some of supporting cast took away from the performance. It was apparent that the director and cast decided to play the supporting characters in a more comedic way; which for the most part was great and gave a lighter tone to more intense pats, but sometimes caused it to come off as surface level performances. For the most part I felt as though the performances were outstanding throughout and only the added ill-timed comedy took away from the

Theater is an established art form that has served as public entertainment for several years. Theatre provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time. Last weekend I watched the famous play Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap directed by Jeff Brown at Long Beach Playhouse. The thesis revolves around the significance of using suspense and mystery plot. The paper will explain the effect of using these techniques of suspense in mystery. Suspense is when an individual experiences gratifying expectation and excitement regarding the outcome of a story. Suspense is necessary in writing mystery plays because it captures the audience’s interest and imagination.

I will be honest with you I had a lot of trouble enjoying the play, like I said the dialect gave me trouble, plus my seats were not that great. I did however like the movie quite a bit, but I realize I am a product of a different generation as well. I have been brought up around TV and movies rather than plays

The author shows the readers that today so-called cozy mysteries has no big difference from Golden Age style mystery writing. The story occurs mainly in a small setting, such as part of a closed group, in a manor or a small village. Christie’s works still influence the readers: They still love to read Agatha Christie’s novels today.

As I have seen some performances prior to this one, my expectations are kind of not that high. As the play was prepared and performed by a team of theater students, I just expected there will be basic elements a play should have. I also did expect some extraordinary performances from the main actors because I got that every time I attended the plays on campus. LMU actors and actresses / theater-majors tended to surprise me every single time I attended their plays. I know they will eventually act for a living but the fact that they could memorize pages of script, successfully get into character and act all at the same time still baffled me very much.

I was particularly struck by the acting of Gracie Sartin. Her fearless approach to so many elements of the play – whether it was being hit on the head with an ironing board, hitting another costar with the ironing board, or giving one of her characters (Villian) an accent - was incredibly interesting to watch. Despite the fact that she portrayed six different people, she embodied them so well that I did not see Gracie in them. I saw only the characters she was portraying. The other actors were also successful in that ability. I think that achievement, combined with the success of the way the time constraints were embraced, added greatly to the success of the play.

In addition to having intriguing characters in a story, Agatha Christie also did a great job at adding a good deal of suspense to her stories. The way that she wrote plots and revealed each event to the reader made readers never want to put down the book. In And Then There Were None, Christie writes the quote, “It is perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us.…” (Christie 101). This builds a great amount of

They all clearly worked very very hard to be able to accurately portray their characters effectively. One thing that really stuck out to me was Dayandra Leos portrait of Jean. I am able to say this because I personally know Dayandra and saw her in many high school production, but she fully became Jean. At times, I even forgot who she was, I forgot that she wasn’t her character. It was amazing. This also had to be one of her best performances that i've seen her do. She was completely believable and I was stunned by her. Another performance I found to be shocking was Matt Magaldi portrayal of Gordon Gottlieb. His entire monologue in the middle of the play was just so funny and honestly very well done. I actually believed that he was a horrible guy who sold organs and only cared about himself. The fact that the audience could be so close and still be fully immersed into the world is pure talent.

Acting was awesome I really saw the actors get into their parts. The actors had moments of emotion portraying the characters personality in the story. The whole musical was very entertaining I watched both acts, found it to have different points of view on how the time in Berlin was for Cliff and Sally. How the Germans and Jew might have been like before World War II. It also showed how it was like to be an individual away from home and not knowing what would happen next. Cliff reminded me of how I would like to travel and meet people for inspiration even if there were differences about how they saw their lives. One of the character that got my attention was Sally she was very funny, serious and had Cliff worried for some reason she had a natural flow of just being herself. The other two characters I really liked was Herr and Fraulein Story it shows how these two were very good friends and slowly started dating and then got married. One was a Jew and the other a German to me it expressed that people did not see it as a bad thing to be with someone who is not from the same background or culture. Even through times that they could not be together they managed to be

In the essay, The Enduring Appeal of Agatha Christie, the organization and strong supporting examples create an effective essay. The author begins with a general question which acts as a hook, in order to grab the attention of the reader. Then, the author gives examples of other popular writers, which allows the reader to gain a more specific idea about the topic of the essay. The thesis statement presents the author’s argument about Agatha Christie and it outlines the supporting points in the order in which they will appear in the body paragraphs.

“Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap” (“Homepage”). The New Historicism Lens is a way for readers to speculate deeper understandings of texts by relating the text to the historical era in which it was set or written. Another aspect of this lens involves looking specifically at how the author’s life impacts their writing. Published in 1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, continues to be one of Christie's most successful books, and with the use of this lens, readers can observe historical happenings at the time it was written and how events in Christie’s life influenced her writing of this text.

Before I go for watching the drama called “The Mousetrap”, I searched a little bit history information about this drama to help me understand more clearly. The Mousetrap is a very famous drama in the world. At first, Agatha Christie, who is a famous author of detective novels, wrote “Three Blind Mice” as a novel in 1950. And then, she recomposed the novel as a drama, called “The Mousetrap”. The first time, “The Mousetrap” shows to audiences was in 1952, and enormous implications. After premiere, every night has the show in different city and different country. Until now, it is showing more than twenty thousand times. Therefor, I really looking forward for this drama, and it is really great when I finish to watch

Throughout the play, I enjoyed the role of music used to set a comic atmosphere and replace the dialogs during comic scenes (e.g. when they chase each other around). I also thought that they made a good use of light to indicate the moment of the day the scene was happening or to set the atmosphere of the scene (e.g. pink colour during the romantic moments). Lastly, I liked the way the play ended. Even though it was a little messy with everyone running after each other off and on stage, and this policeman coming out of nowhere, which really surprised me; I couldn’t think of a better way to end the play.

Agatha Christie's history is full of surprises. She has not only written detective novels, which have reached to 82 novels, but has also written many autobiographies. She also wrote six novels under a pseudonym called Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie also wrote 19 plays Including the play "The Trap" which was known in London as the longest play at that time.

The book And Then There Were None was written by Agatha Christie in 1939. The