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This is the opening scene to the fictional murder mystery play, 鈥楳urder at Haversham Manor鈥�, which the cast are (attempting) to perform. Jonathan is playing the corpse, and Robert and Dennis must discover him鈥�.if they can get on the set. The plot of the fictional play here is second fiddle to the precise slapstick performance of the scene. The scene directions are therefore key. None of the men are particularly good actors and Dennis reads the longer words in his script off his hand.
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Start: Jonathan (playing Charles Haversham) enters through the darkness. He trips and falls over. The lights suddenly come up on Jonathan on the floor. He freezes. The lights go out again as he takes up his position, dead, on the chaise longue, arm outstretched on to the floor.
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End: Dennis: Right away, sir!
He goes to leave through the door, but it still won鈥檛 budge. He opens the front of the long-case clock next to the door and gets inside instead.
Robert: Good God! Haversham murdered at his own engagement party!
For full text, see:
Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015, pp.7-11.
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