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| 2 | * AdaptationDisplacement: To some degree, anyhow. Think about it: how often do you hear anyone refer to the original short story or radio play ''Three Blind Mice'' instead of the play? However, that's partially due to publishing of the short story being banned in its home country until the show stops running. It was, however, released in the United States. |
| 3 | * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Mr. Paravicini sometimes gets this in various productions. Most portray him as a stereotypical Italian who talks-a like-a this and such. Others, however, portray him more like an Italian mobster, giving him an edge of sorts. |
| 4 | * NightmareFuel: Oh, so very much - and not just at the end. Think about it: you're trapped in a little bed and breakfast inn by a snowstorm with people you don't know... and one of them is the killer. |
| 5 | * RetroactiveRecognition: For those that get a copy of the script, which usually includes the show's opening night cast list, they may be surprised to see THE Creator/RichardAttenborough was the very first actor to play Det. Sgt. Trotter. His wife, Sheila Simm, was Mollie Ralston. |
| 6 | * SpoilAtYourOwnRisk: The twist ending that they implore you to keep secret. Most productions of the play even bill themselves as "the longest-running secret in the history of theatre!", or variations to that effect. Most people actually obey. A joke among theatre insiders tells of an American couple going to see ''The Mousetrap'', tipping their cabbie poorly, and having "TheButlerDidIt!" yelled at their departing backs. Fear not if you are spoiler-averse: there is no butler character in ''The Mousetrap''. (Some tellings of the joke have the cabbie yell the identity of the ''actual'' murderer.) Even nowadays one can hear the viewers' gasps of shock and amazement during TheReveal in the theatre, so the secret has been kept surprisingly well. |
| 7 | * UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In 1952 this was a contemporary play. A mention of ration books meant this was already showing its age just two years later when rationing was abolished. The radio being the source of news and entertainment, the fashions (possibly much more overtly "1950s" than they would have been in the actual 1950s), and especially the shock of a woman wearing trousers cement this firmly in a narrow time period. |
| 8 | ** Even more so since 1968, when the Berkshire police force ceased to be, with the county being part of the area covered by the new Thames Valley Police. |
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