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Home > Browse > Livestream Titles > You Have the Right to Remain Dead

You Have the Right to Remain Dead

By Pat Cook.

Product Code: Y23000

Full-length Play

Comedy

Cast size: 5m., 5w.

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Synopsis

You've just settled down in a theatre to solve an audience-participation murder mystery. The narrator comes out and gives you a few "ins and outs" on what to look for in the play. The show starts and you meet Fat Daddy, a rich but vindictive southern gentleman with an equally conniving and scheming family. So you know who's going to die, right? But who will the murderer be? Will it be Sweet Mama, Daddy's pandering wife; Hyacinth, the daughter who's always cleaning the family firearms; Earl the worm, or his overly amorous wife, Savannah; or Clete, the sullen handyman who, for some reason, is in the will? Then Fat Daddy is discovered, dead as a hammer. Except the corpse isn't Daddy's—it's the narrator's! The director comes on stage and the police arrive. Now you have to figure out which of the actors murdered the narrator. And not only are you questioning the cast, but they are questioning you! Yes, you are a suspect as well! This frantic mystery-comedy will have audiences guessing until the last clue is dropped and the last ham overacts.

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Status In stock
Type of Show Full-length Play
Product Code Y23000
Minimum Cast Size 10
Pages of Dialogue 68
Min. Royalty Rate $110.00/perf
Approx. Run Time 90 min
Staging One int. set.

Customer Reviews

The audience-participation component of this show was extremely successful. Our audiences had a wonderful time trying to solve the mystery. They were engaged from the beginning. There was raucous laughter throughout each performance. We recommend this show as a fun and feel-good experience for cast, staff, and audience. Laughter is excellent medicine for our times.

Laureen Catlin, Mason Community Players, Inc., Mason, Ohio

Such a wonderful evening of fun and entertainment!

Judy Lewis, FMCT, Fargo, N.D.

This was a great and challenging play to put on. It was great to have so much audience interaction with the actors. The one tip to remember is that even though the real body is not dead, you have to act like there is a dead body on stage.

Roberta J. Lillie, Bennington Community Theater, Bennington, Vt.

"Audience participation murder mystery" is a good descriptor of this play within a play. Our audiences had a great time at our dinner theater. Good food and then being accused of murder!

Margaret Dennis, Newburgh Community Theatre, Newburgh, Ind.

In true Pat Cook fashion, this show was delightful, complicated and intense. This was a play within a play so six of the actors had to create two different characters. It is also an audience participation show. A very different type of work for these actors. The audiences loved it. It was an excellent comedy with lots of laughter involved.

Wendy Hassemer, Española's MainStreet Theatre, Española, N.M.