Crime & detection · 1980 · play

For Whom the Bell Chimes

by Graham Greene

For Whom the Bell Chimes is a three-act comedy, farce play written by Graham Greene. The play is set in a one-room, Omni-Studio apartment. Each act starts with the chime of the doorbell and the entrance of a new character and farce in the room. 'X' Masterman ('Chips') Colonel Fenwick Sergeant Neighbour Inspector ('Ginger') RSPCA Man Act One opens with 'X' answering the doorbell of his apartment to a man called Masterman, dressed in shabby clothing collecting for the Anti-Child-Polio Campaign. Masterman is invited in and although 'X' is unable to offer him money, he gradually trades each item of his clothing for that of Mastermans. Once X has exchanged clothes with Masterman he steals Masterman's collection satchel and runs out of the apartment. Masterman is left alone in the apartment without his glasses, and during a search of the room discovers a body of a woman hidden on the fold down bed. Act Two the doorbell chimes and Colonel Fenwick enters, claiming to be an investigator for the Anti-Child-Polio Campaign, on the trail of a man posing as a collector who he believes was just ahead of him in the apartment block. Whilst trying to conceal the discovered...

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