The Rat Trap

This remarkably mature drama tells the story of a newlywed couple looking towards a bright future together, two promising writers vowing to support and love each other through the challenges of creative and professional endeavor. Things go even worse than you might imagine

The Rat Trap mixes a caustic realism, with flashes of Coward’s brilliant, biting wit. Looking back on the play in 1937 in Present Indicative, Coward calls it “My first really serious attempt at psychological conflict…When I had finished it, I felt, for the first time with genuine conviction, that I could really write plays.”