In the Rehearsal Room
NOW the play goes a further stage on its journey: there must be arrangement tests in the rehearsal room.
“Here is one door,” asserts the producer, at the same time pointing to empty space, “and this hat-stand is another. This chair is a divan, and this chair is a window. This table here is a piano, and here, where there isn’t anything, is a large lamp. Madame enters by the door on the left, and stands by the table. Good. And now George Danesh enters by the other door. My God! Where has Mr. X. got to again?”
“He’s rehearsing another part on the stage,” comes from two voices.
“I will play Danesh then,” sighs the producer as he hurries through the imaginary door. “‘Clara, something unexpected has
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