V-2nd. Sometimes a mousetrap is just a mousetrap?

[Mark Kohut]

or is it?

Benny picks them up---"at least saving mice"---and throws one that catches
on the night watchman's sleeve.....Watchman begins the next sentence
 ......no name, as general as The Street. 

The Mousetrap" is Hamlet's answer to Claudius's inquiry about the name of the play whose prologue and first scene the court has just observed (III, ii). The play is actually The Murder of Gonzago, but Hamlet answers metaphorically, since "the play's the thing" in which he intends to "catch the conscience of the king."
 
Oldest running play ever.....started West End of London, 1952......twist, trick ending which is NOT TO BE REVEALED, say the Producers, who don't and it
hasn't publicly.......Ton Stoppard, whose latest we heard TRP saw in NY, did an homage/parody including a twist on The Twist which the Producers would
not fight since it would reveal The Twist.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap
 
nah, no allusive appeal to our author at all, right?