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Noir Pointblank

The third story in the Cafe Noir series, following Murder at Cafe Noir and Noir Suspicions.

Just plain Rick has hired a singer and opened a photo display of "300 yrs of shady business" at the cafe.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Gun Shots

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
A comic tribute to the detective films of Humphrey Bogart. The third story in the Cafe Noir series, following Murder at Cafe Noir and Noir Suspicions. No knowledge of the previous plays is required, as each play can stand alone. 

In Noir Point Blank, "Just Plain" Rick has hired a singer and opened a photo display of "300 yrs of shady business" at the cafe to increase business. To this comes an American detective looking for a murderess but stumbling across a gangster on the lam, a beautiful French historian and a British lawyer with a desire to go night diving. When the murderess ends up dead and the cop is implicated in the murder, it's "Just Plain" Rick who must help him out of the jam by helping him find the real killer. Meanwhile, the gangster has assumed the mortgage for the Cafe Noir and plans on setting up his operations there, and everyone seems to be after something that sunk off the coast of Mustique in 1945.

It's a true forties style American mystery with the perfect mix of action, intrigue, humor, and romance.

Premiere Production: Noir Pointblank frst premiered at the Murder To Go Dinner Theater in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey on January 8, 1994.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: SGT. JOANNE INSTONE is the same actress as Jean. SHEILA WONDERLY is the same actress as Maureen. INSPECTOR RIGFIELD is the same actor as Edward.

  • RICK ARCHER - Ex-PI, owner of the Cafe Noir
    ANTHONY CAIRO - A dealer in the blackmarket on the run
    MAUREEN TEMPLE - A British hit woman
    EDWARD G. STERINBERG - A New York gangster on the lam in Mustique
    SYDNEY TREVOR - An American woman, nightclub singer
    JEAN DIJON - A French art historian
    BEN TEMPLE - A British mob lawyer and Maureen's brother
    DT. SAM LYRIC - An NYPD Detective, looking for Maureen
    SGT. JOANNE INSTONE - The Mustique constable assigned to escort Sam
    SHEILA WONDERFLY - Ex-call girl and co-owner of the Cafe Noir
    INSPECTOR RIGFIELD - St. Vincent police

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    A comic tribute to the detective films of Humphrey Bogart. The third story in the 'Cafe Noir' series, following Murder at Cafe Noir and Noir Suspicions. No knowledge of the previous plays is required, as each play can stand alone. In Noir Point Blank, 'Just Plain' Rick has hired a singer and opened a photo display of '300 yrs of shady business' at the cafe to increase business. To this comes an American detective looking for a murderess but stumbling across a gangster on the lam, a beautiful French historian and a British lawyer with a desire to go night diving. When the murderess ends up dead and the cop is implicated in the murder, it's 'Just Plain' Rick who must help him out of the jam by helping him find the real killer. Meanwhile, the gangster has assumed the mortgage for the Cafe Noir and plans on setting up his operations there, and everyone seems to be after something that sunk off the coast of Mustique in 1945. It's a true forties style American mystery with the perfect mix of action, intrigue, humor, and romance.

    		$24.95

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