The Electric Man / Being the One Act Version of the Three Act Farcical Comedy of the Same Name

A farcical one-act play follows a young inventor who plans to fake his death by using an unfinished automaton to prevent his stepmother’s imminent remarriage from activating an inheritance clause. Allies conceal the inventor in a cupboard while the mechanical double, dressed in his clothes, prowls the rooms with stiff, jerky movements, provoking misunderstandings and comic panic. The condensed staging relies on rapid entrances, costume confusion, and physical business as domestic plotting and mechanical mimicry escalate into narrowly averted revelations and chaotic, humorous resolutions.