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Home > Browse > One Act Plays > The Potman Spoke Sooth

The Potman Spoke Sooth

By David Fulk.

Product Code: P41000

One-act Play

Comedy | Farce

Cast size: 6m., 2w. (1 voice.)

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Synopsis

Agatha Christie is spoofed hilariously as a respectable murder mystery turns into a farcical game of illusion and reality. Colonel Winthrop Wiggins and his wife Beatrice live in their typically English country home. During a blizzard which cuts them off, they receive a visit from Detective Sergeant Gallagher. He informs them that a notorious "Peanut Murderer" is on the loose. Laughs abound as Gallagher, the Wigginses and the butler Miles engage in a zany intrigue of murders, accusations and arrests. Finally the ending string of twists and reversals becomes too much for the actors to bear and they take a Pirandello step out of the play to straighten things out.

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Details

Status In stock
Type of Show One-act Play
Product Code P41000
Minimum Cast Size 9
Pages of Dialogue 38
Min. Royalty Rate $50.00/perf
Approx. Run Time 35 min
Staging One int. set.

Customer Reviews

This was very popular. Our primary students loved the part where everyone gets shot and then comes back to life. And the adults in the crowd loved the "theatricality" of it. Our principal was still complimenting our drama club a month later!

Louise Brazier, William Mason School, Choiceland, SK

Hints, Tips, and Tricks

We had fun with an old English set and a band member to play "dun dun dun" whenever "peanut murderer" was said. We put our "lady in the booth" and "voice" on platforms on on the wings and lit them up with spots (red for the voice). Got lots of laughs.

Skyleen Willingham, Okmulgee High School, Okmulgee, Okla.