Death Drop at the Garrick Theatre – London | Review
December 11, 2020 Last updated:
March 27, 2021
Everyone loves a good murder mystery, don’t they? Well, according to the Guinness Book of Records they do. Dame Agatha Christie holds the title of World’s best-selling Fiction Writer with sales of over 2 billion books. And Christie’s play,
The Mousetrap, has been in the West End since 1952 and looks set to run forever. However, as in a true AC story, things are not always what they seem, and a new contender for the crown has raised their highly coifed head to challenge the Dame’s dominance of crime in theatreland with the opening of
3/5
This Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery at the Garrick is like nothing else you re likely to have seen, and may well make you yelp with glee
11 December 2020 • 12:41pm
Death Drop, at the Garrick
Credit: Alastair Muir
“This show is like nothing you’ve seen on the West End stage ever before!” Normally I’d immediately discount – never mind avoid quoting – this kind of PR hyperbole, but for once the novelty-factor here is off the scale. The tagline for Death Drop (reanimating the Garrick, along with family show Potted Panto) is that it’s “A Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery”. In other words, picture The Mousetrap gaily crossed with a subculture of outlandish cross-dressing and supremely arch artifice.