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	Light Thickens	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Light Thickens is a 1982 detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, and her final work featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn.The story is set in London, and centred on a theatre production of Macbeth. The first half of the novel delves in great detail into the process of rehearsing and preparing the production, and fleshes out the characters, including the director Peregrine Jay and his wife and sons, the distinguished leading man Sir Dougal Macdougal (who plays Macbeth), the gracious and reserved leading lady Margaret "Maggie" Mannering (Lady Macbeth), tall, dark Simon Morten (Macduff), superstitious and fearful Nina Gaythorne (Lady Macduff), beautiful-voiced communist sympathiser Bruce Barrabell (Banquo), the young Maori man Rangi who plays one of the three witches alongside two girls, the highly eccentric and formidable weapons master Gaston Sears, and child actor William Smith whose family history holds a dark secret. Both Sir Dougal and Simon are attracted to Maggie, who insists she does not become attached during the preparations for the production; meanwhile, the two men are fiercely trained for the final fight of the play by Gaston, who insists that they wield very heavy replicas of the authentic weapons.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })After some of the actors inevitably begin to talk of the superstitions surrounding the play, menacing omens from Macbeth begin creeping out into real life: Peregrine is bruised by the handle of a misplaced claymore, Simon and Dougal are unnerved by appearances of Banquo's dummy heads in an offstage room and under a prop serving dish on the stage, and Rangi discovers half of a killed rat in his prop bag while rehearsing; Peregrine assumes that one of the cast or crew is a malicious prankster and forbids any further talk of the incidents.The production is an unbelievable success and earns rave reviews. Two weeks in, Peregrine brings his family to see the play, and Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is also in the audience. In the final scene, it is not a dummy head that is brought onto the stage on the end of a pole...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The story contains examples of:
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