Emlyn Williams's chilling thriller "Night Must Fall" centers on Danny, an outwardly charming, ingratiating young man who insinuates himself into the household of the wealthy, demanding Mrs. Bramson as a servant, all while concealing that he is in fact a murderer carrying his most recent victim's severed head in a hatbox he keeps disturbingly close at hand. As Mrs. Bramson's niece grows increasingly, dangerously fascinated by Danny despite mounting evidence of his guilt, the play builds a slow, suffocating tension around the seductive pull of charisma even when everything points to monstrousness beneath it.

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