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'But Why Bump Off Barnaby?'

  • Rick Abbot
  • Full Length Play, Farce, Comedy, Mystery/Thriller, Present Day
  • 4M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9780573606571

This lunatic show poses a fascinating mystery. When Barnaby Folcey is murdered at a family gathering at Marlgate Manor, it transpires that he had a motive to murder everybody else, but no one had a reason to want him dead.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Farce, Comedy, Mystery/Thriller
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
This lunatic show poses a fascinating mystery. When Barnaby Folcey is murdered at a family gathering at Marlgate Manor, it transpires that he had a motive to murder everybody else, but no one had a reason to want him dead. While dying, he scrawled the letters "b-a-r," which can implicate everyone. While the bizarre group frantically tries to unmask the murderer, people vanish, poison is found in the sherry, and the police take forever to arrive. Meanwhile, there's a secret treasure to be found, a mystifying limerick to decode, and all sorts of doom to be avoided before the killer is finally unmasked and destroyed using one of the funniest methods ever seen on a stage.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 6F

  • MEDKINS - a serenely capable butler
    MAGNOLIA - a very apprehensive maid
    ORION LEDUC - an arthritic British baronet
    BARNABY FOLCEY - a poor relation of the Leducs
    LADY BARBARA FENWICK - a rather deaf peeress
    ROSALIND BARSTOW - a flamboyant fortune-hunter
    CLEO BARTON - a middle-aged Hollywood actress
    JEFF BARNETT - an intrepid police reporter
    MISS BARNSDALE - an old nearsighted family governess
    DORA DUNSTOCK - an adorable young dimwit

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    This lunatic show poses a fascinating mystery. When Barnaby Folcey is murdered at a family gathering at Marlgate Manor, it transpires that he had a motive to murder everybody else, but no one had a reason to want him dead. While dying, he scrawled the letters "b-a-r," which can implicate everyone. While the bizarre group frantically tries to unmask the murderer, people vanish, poison is found in the sherry, and the police take forever to arrive. Meanwhile, there's a secret treasure to be found, a mystifying limerick to decode, and all sorts of doom to be avoided before the killer is finally unmasked and destroyed using one of the funniest methods ever seen on a stage.

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