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Southern Fried Murder

  • Billy St. John
  • Full Length Play, Mystery/Thriller, Comedy
  • 5M, 3F, 1M or F
  • ISBN: 9780874400366

Way down south in Dixie, there's something rotten in the cotton!

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Mystery/Thriller, Comedy

Way down south in Dixie, there's something rotten in the cotton! Wealthy family matriarch Magnolia Capote has summoned her kith and kin to dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss her will. But when Mrs. Capote is killed with her walking stick, mayhem ensues and her possible heirs become involved in a treasure hunt to interpret the encrypted will!

Actors are called about to mill about the audience during pre-show as well as serving dinner to the dining room patrons! Meals can actually be served during the show, or recipes can be substituted for food. The audience is totally involved in this mystery/comedy with one member actually recruited from the audience to play a small part (this character gets beat to death with a frozen chicken). The roles spoof Tennessee Williams' heroines, Bette Davis in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, characters from Tobacco road, Truman Capote, and other denizens of the Deep South.

The script even includes recipe hand-outs, courtesy of gourmet cook Philia Hach!

Suitable for both school and adult groups, from the author of Rubies and Thirteen Past Midnight.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 3F, 1M or F

  • MAGNOLIA DAVIS CAPOTE - 80's, the wealthy matriarch of a Southern family, stern, aloof (played by a man).
    MAGNOLIA WOODS - 40's, a granddaughter, genteel, flighty, disturbed.
    MAGNOLIA (MAGGIE) ST. LAWRENCE - 30's, a granddaughter, a faded Broadway star, conceited, wry wit.
    MAGNOLIA (NOLIE) FROST - 40's, a granddaughter, harsh, grouchy, a recluse.
    MAGNOLIA (STUMP) SLATTERLY - 20's, a granddaughter, pretty, trashy.
    WILL SLATTERLY - 20's, Stump's twin, handsome, dumb, wrestles alligators.
    BEN PARKER - 40's, a shady lawyer and ladies' man (not necessarily in that order).
    LOU(ISIANA) CAPOTE - 50's, Magnolia Capote's son, prissy, a writer (played by the same actor who plays his mother).
    A.J. WATKINS - 40's or older, a good-ol'-boy sheriff.
    TERRY - The hotel manager; a role to be performed by a member of the audience (male or female). The program will list the past as being played by a "Special Guest Star."

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    Way down south in Dixie, there's something rotten in the cotton! Wealthy family matriarch Magnolia Capote has summoned her kith and kin to dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss her will. But when Mrs. Capote is killed with her walking stick, mayhem ensues and her possible heirs become involved in a treasure hunt to interpret the encrypted will!

    Actors are called about to mill about the audience during pre-show as well as serving dinner to the dining room patrons! Meals can actually be served during the show, or recipes can be substituted for food. The audience is totally involved in this mystery/comedy with one member actually recruited from the audience to play a small part (this character gets beat to death with a frozen chicken). The roles spoof Tennessee Williams' heroines, Bette Davis in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, characters from Tobacco road, Truman Capote, and other denizens of the Deep South.

    The script even includes recipe hand-outs, courtesy of gourmet cook Philia Hach!

    Suitable for both school and adult groups, from the author of Rubies and Thirteen Past Midnight.

    		$24.95

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