As with any play-within-a-play, you have the complication of the actors performing the play-within-a-play and actual characters in the play-within-the-play. (Even saying that is confusing.) To make it a little simpler (maybe), the names are laid out below in two lists. First, the members of the Cornley Drama Society who are putting on the play, and secondly the characters of The Murder at Haversham Manor.
Members of the Cornley Drama Society (In order of appearance)
~ ANNIE is the company’s stage manager
~ STAGE CREW, the Cornley Drama Society stage crew
~ TREVOR is the company’s lighting and sound operator
~ CHRISTINA is the head of the drama society and directed the play
~ JONATHAN plays Charles Haversham
~ ROBERT plays Thomas Colleymoore
~ DENNIS plays Perkins
~ MAX plays Cecil Haversham and Arthur the Gardner
~ SANDRA plays Florence Colleymoore
~ CHRIS plays Inspector Carter
The action takes place on the opening night of the Cornley Drama Society’s production of The Murder at Haversham Manor by Susie H.K. Brideswell. Present day.
Characters in The Murder at Haversham Manor (in order of appearance)
~ CHARLES HAVERSHAM, the deceased
~ THOMAS COLLEYMOORE, Charles’ old school friend
~ PERKINS, Charles’ butler
~ CECIL HAVERSHAM, Charles’ brother
~ FLORENCE COLLEYMOORE, Charles’ fiancée and Thomas’ sister
~ INSPECTOR CARTER, an esteemed local inspector
~ ARTHUR THE GARDNER, the gardener at Haversham Manor
The action takes place in Charles’ private rooms at Haversham Manor on the evening of Charles and Florence’s engagement party. Winter 1922.
