Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIKE NEARLY every other Agatha Christie work, The Mousetrap features a group of people whom chance has thrown together in a secluded place and who have a murderer in their midst. Complete with the usual drawing room scene, Christie's play is as pleasant as it is familiar--or is it familiar? The plot turns might surprise even the most jaded mystery buff...
...twists soon enter the plot of The Mousetrap with the arrival of Mr. Paravicini (played by the lively Peter Pappas) and Detective Sergeant Trotter (Ian Thornley). Trotter fears a murder will take place at the manor because of a notebook indicating the manor found at the scene of the London murder and is out to prevent...
...usual, songwriting Guru Dave Faulkner focuses his trenchant lyrics, on faithless girlfriends and confused, desperate men, but with a venom unfelt on the band's two previous albums. The song titles alone--for example, "Out That Door," "What's My Scene," "I Was the One," "Hell for Leather," and "In the Middle of the Land"--spell out these feelings...
...least somewhat endurable. Michaels believes he's being given a call girl by his brother Harry (Chris Winn) for a present, but instead gets caught in the typical "girl-in-the-bed, wife-knocking-on-the-door" scenario. Thomsen's natural comic delivery and sustained energy save the scene and much of the rest of the production...
...closely related, if not common, species. We can't deny it, dude, it's all so large, you know. Larger than us all, even larger than that big splotch on your head. Heh heh. A little joke there, dude. But seriously, why bother with the whole artificial death scene, man, I mean in the end it's all the same, right? I'm for just hanging loose, dude, like playing it fully casual--I say let's place a moratorium on doomsday machines, and then divert funds meant for the Defense Department to the Grateful Dead. You in, dude...