How does a man behave in an emotional crisis? How alike are our actions in real ife to those that we portray on stage? The theme is worked out in two similar situations, played alongside each one another. In the one Freddie, a celebrated Parisian artist, loses his fiancee; his reaction betrays nothing; he turns to the artistic yougn woman who happens to be with him at the time and, offering her a dish of fruit, says Do you like strawberries Anne-Marie? In the other Alan, the well-known actor who is playing the part of Freddie on the stage, and who has maintained that freddie's behaviour is utterly unreal, finds that his wife has packed her bags and left him. How differently does he behave? Does he become violent as he has said a man would? No. He picks up a dish of fruit and turning to the actress who happesn to be present, says Do you like strawberries, Diana? It is not until later that his nature exerts itself. In his dreams that night he finds himself on trial for the murder of his wife and lover. He admits he killed them; but hadn't he provocation enough? Just because she happened to find some rouge - some quite innocent rouge - on his pocket-handkerchief