THE STORY:
From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Character Breakdown:
As with any play-within-a-play, you have the complication of the
characters of the actors doing the play-within-the-play and the
characters within the play-within-the-play. To make it a little simpler,
the names are laid out below in two lists: firstly the members of the
Cornley Drama Society who are putting on the play, and secondly
the characters of The Murder at Haversham Manor. The text always
uses the actors’ names rather than the characters’ names.
Members of the Cornley Drama Society
(in order of appearance)
ANNIE is the company’s stage manager. American accent.
STAGE CREW, the Cornley Drama Society stage crew.
TREVOR is the company’s lighting and sound operator.
American accent.
CHRIS is the head of the drama society, directed the play and
plays Inspector Carter.
JONATHAN plays Charles Haversham.
ROBERT plays Thomas Colleymoore.
DENNIS plays Perkins.
MAX plays Cecil Haversham and Arthur the Gardener.
SANDRA plays Florence Colleymoore.
Break Legs!