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In reply to #2: Right now, i know it takes 2 hours (with a ten minute...

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:30:09 PST

In reply to #2: Right now, i know it takes 2 hours (with a ten minute break) to go through the first two acts (about thirty pages) . Unfortunately, there are still thirty pages left.

Are you factoring in your breaks and the times you stop to give...

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:04:07 PST

Are you factoring in your breaks and the times you stop to give direction? Have you done a run-through, in which you do the play from start to finish with no breaks? That will give you a good sense of how much time you'll need. How much time are you using between scenes and acts? Can you speed those up? How long is your intermission?I taught 8th grade drama last year. We did A Christmas Carol, and in every rehearsal, the play took exactly one...

Mousetrap School Play

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 06:55:56 PST

I am doing the Mousetrap for a school play. In practice it takes about 4 hrs to do the whole thing. Is there a way to cut it down to about 2 1/2 hrs?

Christie's play began as a radio play titled Three Blind Mice. She had...

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:34:27 PST

Christie's play began as a radio play titled Three Blind Mice. She had to give it a new title when she adapted it for the stage because there was already a play with that name. The new title, The Mousetrap, was inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which Hamlet calls his play within the play "The Mousetrap" because he hopes to use it to catch Claudius as his father's killer.You can think of the characters in Christie's play as mice...

What is the significance of the title, "The Mousetrap"?

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:57:19 PST

What is the significance of the title, "The Mousetrap"?

there are a lot of red herrings in this play- some of them are: sergeant...

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:19:41 PST

there are a lot of red herrings in this play- some of them are: sergeant trotter is the killer- he has an alter ego, mollie and giles went up to london while they were supposed to be doing something else (they were getting their wedding anniversary gifts for eachother's first year of marriage) and miss casewell is katherine from the longbridge farm case. christopher wren is thought to be the killer from the beginning of the play,but...

This play may be difficult for ESL students with all the idioms and...

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:01:07 PST

This play may be difficult for ESL students with all the idioms and references to cultural knowledge. I would go with something like Amy Tan's excerpts of her books and then watch the film, although you will have the same problem there. Not all your ESL kids will be familiar with Chinese culture. THis is a good thing to talk about though...get them brainstorming the differences in culture and how they deal with greeting people, death,...

The murderer is actually Trotter, the man acting as the investigator.

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:06:01 PST

The murderer is actually Trotter, the man acting as the investigator.

Who is the killer in The Mousetrap?

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:02:24 PST

Who is the killer in The Mousetrap?

Is The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie appropriate to teach to a class of...

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:02:47 PST

Is The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie appropriate to teach to a class of 13- to 14-year-old kids?

What are the red herrings in mousetrap?

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:59:28 PST

What are the red herrings in mousetrap?

Trotter (Georgie) is the murderer. This is openly revealed late in Act...

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:45:41 PST

Trotter (Georgie) is the murderer. This is openly revealed late in Act II. (See the section when he pulls a gun on Mollie.) Greg

Who is the murderer in The Mousetrap?

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:05:03 PST

Who is the murderer in The Mousetrap?