MURDER MYSTERY
Frightened to Death. By Peter Lancaster Walker
A thriller/drama running time approx 35mins for 3f and 3m or 4f and 2m.
Lawyer Ray is having an affair with his wife's sister. His wife Emma is
unexpectedly recuperating from serious heart surgery and her future is
looking decidedly uncertain. Ray learns that far from recovering she
will slowly deteriorate until she reaches such a point that she becomes
totally dependant upon carers. The thought of spending the rest of his
life caring for someone whom he does not love is unacceptable to Ray and
in desperation he offers the possibility of murder as a solution. He has
a contact who could arrange this. Emma is terrified of thunderstorms, a
storm is on its way and tonight is the perfect opportunity to 'frighten
her to death!' The plan is put into action. The outcome is………?
Stage set a bungalow living room. A short thriller with an engaging
story line leading to an unexpected conclusion
Madam by Léon Pepall.
1m 1w running time 38 minutes.
Madam lives alone in her large secluded house. A masked face is seen
peering through the patio doors. The potential assailant makes his
entry. Death lurks in the air, but whose death and what can be the
reason? Through the thrust, parry and suspense of their enigmatic,
sometime humorous and dark dialogue, we make sense of this seemingly
strange confrontation as the secrets drip, drip drip into the open. Once
these secrets are set free will it still be necessary for someone to
die?
A great festival piece , moody, brimming with intrigue and expectation.
Wracked and Ruined: 2m 3f By Christine
Emmert In the spirit of the Hammer movies
where the beautiful virgin is the victim and the corpse. In her tomb
awaiting the onset of rigor mortis she ponders the identity of her
slayer. She has assistance in this by way of a series of visiting
mourners each of whom may have been the perpetrator. Things are
inevitably not precisely what they seem but as the body stiffens the
answer is revealed. A mystery/drama with a running
veil of black comedy.
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