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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’t 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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