They plan for Raffles to rob the Marquess's safe during a baccarat house party. Bunny is delighted to be reunited with Raffles and removes his armband. He heard Lord Alfred's burglary idea and approves of it. After leaving the room, Raffles had eavesdropped on Bunny and Lord Alfred, because he was jealous after finding Bunny and Lord Alfred together. He escaped, with a gold pocket watch owned by General Botha. He explains that on the battlefield, he exchanged papers with a dead soldier before he was captured by the Boers. Suddenly, Raffles enters, revealing that he was disguised as Mackenzie. Bunny is unwilling to do it without Raffles. Mackenzie questions Bunny about the tools, and Bunny comes up with innocent explanations for them.Īfter Mackenzie leaves the room, Lord Alfred suggests to Bunny that they steal from Lord Alfred's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, as a way of getting revenge for Wilde's prison sentence. Bunny recognizes the man as Inspector Mackenzie, the police detective who arrested Bunny and tried to arrest Raffles. The Albany head porter, Smith, says a man in tweeds with a grey beard wants to see Bunny. Bunny shows Lord Alfred some of Raffles's burglary tools. Raffles left a will leaving Bunny everything, including the Albany chambers. Bunny and Raffles had a homosexual relationship, and Bunny tells Lord Alfred he is still always faithful to Raffles. Bunny is wearing a black armband in memory of Raffles, who was reportedly killed in the Boer War six months prior. Lord Alfred Douglas comes to see his friend Bunny Manders, who served a prison sentence for burglary and met Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol. Raffles's old Albany chambers in Piccadilly. The play starts on a date in late summer 1900, in A. The robbery takes place at the Marquess' house in Hertfordshire, where Raffles and Bunny are interrupted by the Prince of Wales and a Scotland Yard detective, who discover the Prince's personal letters have also been stolen.
Raffles-presumed dead in the Boer War-who returns to Albany where, with his friends Bunny and Lord Alfred Douglas, he plots to rob the Marquess of Queensberry, partly for the money and partly for revenge against the Marquess for his treatment of their friend Oscar Wilde. Set in the late summer of the year 1900, the story revolves around the infamous burglar and cricketer, A. Hornung's characters in The Amateur Cracksman. Raffles, first produced and published in 1975, is an Edwardian comedy play in three acts, written by Graham Greene and based somewhat loosely on E.
An Albany apartment and a country house in 1900
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