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WHODUNIT... AND TO WHOM?
A Play within a Play within a... in Two Acts
By ROBERT FRANKEL
DEDICATION
To my good friend Mark Colbenson
CAST OF CHARACTERS
(In order of speaking)
# of lines
HAROLD FINNEGAN.................a carpet salesman and hen134
pecked husband/father by day,
an aspiring writer by night
TESSIE FINNEGAN/TRIXIE ......Harold’s whiny wife who gets
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pulled into the play as TRIXIE,
the wife of the Chief of Police
MABEL ....................................... Harold’s bratty daughter (can be 13
played as OFFSTAGE VOICE)
DIRK........................................... Harold’s bratty son (can be
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played as OFFSTAGE VOICE)
GRIP (BOB SMITH) ...................a thought-form named BOB
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SMITH who plays the tough but
inept detective, GRIP
ANYTIME/CHRISTINA
(HONEY LAKE) ...................a thought-form named HONEY 131
LAKE who plays the mysterious
Russian first named ANYTIME,
then CHRISTINA
PIZZA GUY ................................street-wise pizza delivery man
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who gets caught up in the mystery
and turns out to be Sheila’s son
POLICE OFFICER #1 (JOHN)...leader of police officers, played 22
by a thought-form named JOHN
POLICE OFFICERS #2, #3, #4..other fearless police officers
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SHEILA CRYLINE/CRYLINSKI..a mastermind villain who hates 41
Grip
ELIZABETH................................Montgomery’s wife and co32
conspirator
MONTGOMERY.........................a snobby English writer who
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believes he is writing a play with
Harold in it
DOLORES..................................a thought-form friend of
Christina’s who turns out to be
an author herself
BITSY/MARCIA..........................Grip’s long-lost daughter who
is an electronic whiz and is bent
on wreaking revenge
POLICE OFFICER WITH NO NAME/
CHIEF OF POLICE..............the last of the fearless police
officers and, in Act Two, the
CHIEF OF POLICE and Trixie’s
husband
MOTHER....................................Shelley’s jovial mother
SHELLEY ...................................a mousy author who apparently
is the “real author” of this play
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