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Chain of Circumstances
Author(s):
Conrad Sutton Smith
Keith Fox, a struggling young American playwright in Paris, has just completed his new play, but is very secretive about it, even with his two closest friends--Bonnie Lenox, a charming and resourceful girl who loves Keith deeply despite his all-consuming ambition--and Basil Worthing, a young Englishman, an ex-actor now semi-beatnik. Into this picture comes a successful Broadway playwright, Robin Meredith, who needs someone to type his new play and accepts Bonnie's suggestion of Keith. But when he starts to type Robin's play, Keith is horrified to realize that it deals with the same historical subject as his own. It drives him to a desperate decision--to do away with Robin--and further, to appropriate Robin's play as his own. So he evolves an elaborate "perfect crime" (with Basil's unwitting assistance). But Robin's dying words throw him into a turmoil: The handwritten script which Robin had given him for typing is not the only copy, and now Keith will never know when or where the other carbon copy may appear to condemn him. The chain of circumstances tightens even more around him when the crafty Basil begins to piece together many curious little discrepancies, with a view to a fat blackmail income. From this point on, the action takes swift and startling turns. The dramatic irony of the last five minutes can't be revealed here, but it's designed to hold an audience breathless until literally the last line.
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 6 | | Male Characters: | 4 | | Female Characters: | 2 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $40 per performance
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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