Agatha Christie’s Mouse Trap, a play about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm opens at the Santa Maria Civic Theatre as part of its 51st season. The suspects include the newly married couple who runs the house, and their suspicions nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Other players are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. When a policeman on skis arrives and the jurist is killed soon after, the cop begins to dig into the background of everyone trapped in the house.
Mouse Trap plays at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings Feb. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 1660 N. McClelland St. Tickets cost $14. For more information or reservations, call 922-4442 or visit smct.org.
This article appears in Jan 21-28, 2010.