The Real Inspector Hound
Real Inspector Hound, The
Author: Tom Stoppard
First Performance: 1968, London
Published: 1968
Genre: Com. in 1 act
Setting: Stage set of country-house living room, with auditorium behind, 1960s
Cast: 5m, 3f
Moon and Birdboot, two theatre critics, settle to watch a murder mystery. Ambitious young Moon is unhappy, because he remains his newspaper's second-string critic, junior to someone for whom he has no respect, while middle-aged unattractive Birdboot wonders whether he can win an actress's favours by flattering her with a good review. The play begins, using every cliché in the book: dependable housekeeper Mrs Char, a good-looking young couple in their twenties Simon and Felicity, the aristocratic Lady Cynthia Muldoon, the sinister cripple Magnus, all isolated by rising fog. The critics comment on...
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