Regular readers will know there are certain things that can guarantee I will be enthusiastic about a play- I’ll see anything with Tamsin Greig in it for example. Another thing I’m always enthusiastic about is Agatha Christie -I started borrowing her mystery books from my school library aged 11 and shot through them all in a matter of months. Since then I’ve seen pretty much any film/TV/stage adaptation that’s come along and I’ve seen ‘The Mousetrap’ twice, though not for many years (in fact perhaps a repeat visit is in order!) so I was keen to see this new production, and the fact that it was set inside London’s County Hall was a real bonus.

I know the story well (I’ve read it and seen the TV adaptation in the past) so it wouldn’t be fair to comment on the twist since I knew what was coming, but as always with Christie, you’ll get a clever mystery with an outcome you don’t anticipate. I LOVED the setting, with a real magistrates’ bench for the judge to sit at (and the jury get sworn in on the left hand side bench just before the play starts -keep a look out for it!) and the layout feels like you really are part of the performance, especially in the courtroom scenes when you feel like you could be in the spectators’ gallery.

Overall: great fun in a unique and beautiful setting. Go go go.