Prepare to Meet Thy Tomb
- Full Length Play, Mystery/Thriller, Comedy, Present Day
- 4M, 6F
- ISBN: 9780573113598
Prepare to Meet Thy Tomb follows Tomb With a View and Tiptoe Through the Tombstones to complete the trilogy of plays from Norman Robbins about the family that play together and slay together: the murderous Tombs.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Mystery/Thriller, Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: No Special Cautions
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student
As night falls and fog descends on Monument House Hotel and Alternative Health Spa, Hecuba Tomb and her niece Drusilla receive a series of unexpected visitors. Novelist Phillipa and her assistant Daphne are seeking refuge from a mysterious follower they fear may be the notorious "Norfolk Stranger." Hot on their heels come TV historian Quentin Danesworth and vacuous honeymooners Robert and Miranda. The uninvited guests are soon snooping around the secret passages of the creepy old mansion and asking too many questions for comfort. Sure enough, one by one they fall victim to violent deaths by devious techniques -- no secret panel is unoccupied, no cup of tea untouched, and nobody is who they appear to be.
This irresistible combination of spoof and baffling murder mystery, over-the-top characters and shocking plot twists will thrill and delight in equal measure.
REVIEWS:
"This is the sort of things that Norman Robbins does best: eccentric characters; secret panels; plot twists that are every bit as shocking, and frequent, as the violent deaths suffered by the cast list; and a gloriously funny sense of the macabre throughout."
Amateur Stage, September 2010
First productions in 2010.
To date nearly 30 productions nationally.
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 6F
- Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors
- Casting Notes: The more skilled the performers and directors the more the watchers will enjoy themselves. Characters are pure stock, giving performers wonderful opportunities for truly bizarre characterization, whilst laughter and chills are in equal amounts. Forget political correctness. Here is a family that play together and slay together.
HECUBA TOMB - her aunt; 60s
SIR BEVERLEY COMSTOCK - 60s
PHILLIPA COLLINS - 40s
DAPHNE SUMMERS - late 50s
ANTHONY STRICKLAND - late 20s
QUENTIN DANESWORTH - effeminate; late 60s
ROBERT SANDBROOKE - late 30s
MIRANDA TORRENCE - early 40s
CECILY VENNER - late 30s
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Prepare to Meet Thy Tomb follows Tomb With a View and Tiptoe Through the Tombstones to complete the trilogy of plays from Norman Robbins about the family that play together and slay together: the murderous Tombs. |
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