(Last Laugh, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 1959)
This is my mind is one of the best reversals of sterotypical character roles I have ever seen.
It is a scene based in a police station, where Mister Prone has turned up to hand himself in for a murder he has just committed. But the reversal comes inthe way it is played the police officer is attempt to slime his way out of arresting the man like a criminal would when accused of a crime and the criminal is attempt to corner the police men into arresting him.
It tracks the relationship perfectly
Stage one:
Criminal informing policeman of the horrible murder.
Police man upset and shocked by the crime.
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