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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Thriller

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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 friendsBonnie Lenox, a charming and resourceful girl who loves Keith deeply despite his all-consuming ambitionand 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 decisionto do away with Robinand 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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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Adapted from "The Perfectionist" by Margaret St. Clair. / written by Denham, Reginald and Smith, Conrad

Muriel Whitlock, a middle-aged English spinster, is a perfectionist. Small wonder that Virginia Whitlock, an attractive young girl, hopes to get away. Virginia is a sculptress and she has just finished a statute which she is convinced will win her a scholarship to an art school in Rome. Muriel is not pleased, when she realizes that Virginia's mind is made up, she agrees, and even offers to help finance the trip. All seems well, but when they leave for church one day Muriel slips back and smashes Virginia's statue. But Muriel's act was witnessed by Ricky Vidal, a young Latin-American, who has slipped into the house, unknown to Muriel. Ricky presents himself to Muriel as her long-lost nephew, and she suspects of ulterior motives; but she is also intrigued by his charm. He flatters her, gets money from her, encourages her in her artistic endeavors, which consists of drawing the same still life over and over. Ricky diverts her to other models, among them some goldfish which he gives her as a gift; but the fish keep moving around, and Muriel can't get them to stay still until she puts them in the refrigerator, freezing them into position. Now Ricky realizes he is dealing with an unbalanced mind, and from this point on it's a tug-of-war between his lack of principles and Muriel's single mindedness.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Written by Conrad Sutton Smith and Reginald Denham

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