A whistle echoes through the night, playing the tune of the nursery rhyme, “Three Blind Mice”. A scream rips though the night as Mollie finds her guest, Mrs. Boyle, lying dead on the floor.

The Theater department put on Mouse Trap, a play by Agatha Christie, in which five people are staying at a bed and breakfast. Unfortunately, there has been a murder in London, England, and the guests and owners become suspects. A detective comes to the inn to figure out who the murderer is.

The play ran once from October 3 to 5, with the setting takes place within a day, during the 1950’s, in the middle of a blizzard.

“Therefore, every actor only needs two costumes each; one for the night, and one for the day,” Theater Paws director Scott Taylor said.

Theater tech prepared as if it were any other show.

“It took us roughly four weeks to make all the set pieces, props, and costumes, but a lot of this we already had,” Theater Tech director Dean Robertson said.

There were only eight roles, but there were more crew than actors.

“We have roughly eleven people working each night,” Robertson said.

Although Robertson believes that this play was pretty easy, Taylor disagrees.

“Murder mysteries are difficult to do because they are full of so much information and plot twists,” Taylor said. “It’s not always easy for the actors because they know who did it, but the audience must perceive everyone a suspect during the show.”

The audience said that the acting was good and the play enjoyable.

“I enjoyed going to a place I had never been before,” Robertson said. “It was a good read; I didn’t know who did it until the end.”