The Mousetrap.
A story brought to life.

The Mousetrap is a Hindi and English staging of Agatha Christie's murder mystery, produced by Zarak Events and designed and directed by Shekhar Kanwat, a graduate of the National School of Drama, Delhi. It is part of Zarak Events' own live entertainment portfolio rather than a client commission.

The story is the one theatre audiences know: a group of strangers snowed in at a guest house, a murder, and a killer among them. The adaptation keeps that plot and moves the dialogue between Hindi and English, so the show plays to the mix of languages that Dubai audiences use every day.

Producing theatre calls for a focused audience connection, where performance, atmosphere and timing work together. The stage photographs and films below show the performance environment, and the audience videos give the view of people who saw the show.

Warehouse Four is an open event space, not a built theatre with a fixed stage, rig and seating. A show in a space like this needs the set, the lighting plan, the sound system and the audience layout brought in and fitted to the room.

A murder mystery also depends on control. The audience has to hear every line, notice the right clue and stay in the dark until the reveal, so lighting states and sound cues are planned with the director and run the same way at every performance.

Running three shows across two days, including an afternoon matinee and an evening show on the same day, also means a fast reset of the set and props between performances.