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The Prime Time Crime

Join in the mayhem and merriment as our crime fighters search for the Phantom!

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 100 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
A comedy spoof in which parodies of the television prime-time crime fighters all descent on Shropshire Manor, nearly knocking each other down as each, in their own special way, tries to solve a humorously complex Agatha Christie sort of mystery!

A diabolical plot is unfolding and the relatives are dropping like flies. Murder most foul! Who is the Phantom? No one knows. But he haunts the halls and rooms, wearing black and showing no mercy. The local constable is unable to handle it.

Join in the mayhem and merriment as our crime fighters search for the Phantom! 

  • Casting: 17M, 8F
  • Casting Attributes: Flexible casting

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A comedy spoof in which parodies of the television prime-time crime fighters all descent on Shropshire Manor, nearly knocking each other down as each, in their own special way, tries to solve a humorously complex Agatha Christie sort of mystery! A diabolical plot is unfolding and the relatives are dropping like flies. Murder most foul! Who is the Phantom No one knows. But he haunts the halls and rooms, wearing black and showing no mercy. The local constable is unable to handle it. Join in the mayhem and merriment as our crime fighters search for the Phantom! One int. set. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes.

$19.95