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Murderous Crossing

Audience members were often reduced to helpless laughter.

Courier News

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: 1920s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Gun Shots

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
The year is 1923 and audience members are passengers on board the HMS Victoria as it crosses the English Channel. The famous Inspector Clurrot has tracked down a homicidal mastermind hiding out on board. Meanwhile, the ship is the vessel of matrimony for the Contessa Follette and John D. Rothchild - a marriage encouraged through financial need and murderous greed. But not everything is as it seems, and it turns out that the English Channel isn't the only thing being crossed. 

Audience members are recruited to stand in for the best man, bridesmaid, mother of the groom, and father of the bride in this Agatha Christie style comic mystery.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F

  • FATHER CASSE-COU - The priest. He has a drinking habit.
    CONTESSA NICOLE FOLLETTE - The bride. French.
    LORD ARTHUR BENNET - The bride's friend. A wealthy British banker in London and the bride's ex-lover.
    JONATHAN ROTHCHILD - The groom. Real name Stan Meyerhoff, an American actor.
    VIVIAN ROTHCHILD - The groom's "sister." Real name Susan Starr, a bank robber from Oklahoma.
    ISABELLA CORANOVA - Italian waitress, a gold digger run out of Monaco for immoral activities.
    MISS HASTINGS - British, Ship's cruise director (Same actress as ISABELLA)
    HOWARD KREPPS - An out of work American actor, now a waiter on board.
    INSPECTOR PIERRE CLURROT - French Luxembourg detective (Same actor as HOWARD)

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    The year is 1923 and audience members are passengers on board the HMS Victoria as it crosses the English Channel. The famous Inspector Clurrot has tracked down a homicidal mastermind hiding out on board. Meanwhile, the ship is the vessel of matrimony for the Contessa Follette and John D. Rothchild - a marriage encouraged through financial need and murderous greed. But not everything is as it seems, and it turns out that the English Channel isn't the only thing being crossed. Audience members are recruited to stand in for the best man, bridesmaid, mother of the groom, and father of the bride in this Agatha Christie style comic mystery.

    		$24.95

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