Murder-Mystery Weekend of Doom: A Love Story

Full-Lengths

By: Steven Stack
Cast: 2 M, 9 F, 1 flexible
Performance Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 82 pgs

FARCE. At this murder-mystery weekend, guests have a chance to win a “priceless treasure” if they can solve a fake murder. The guests include an eccentric millionaire who carries around a dead cat, a poor southern girl from a family with a lot of possums, a world-weary criminal, an aging egotistical actress, and a woman with a heart condition in which her heart bursts if it gets filled with too much love. The guests face a major turn of events when instead of solving a fake murder, they are murdered one by one with a series of bizarre weapons including a half-eaten pomegranate, a barrage of acorns, a spatula, a charade’s rulebook, a stethoscope, and a garden spike. Will anyone survive to solve the mystery? With 12 eccentric characters, the laughs never end in this hysterical farce.

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Steven Stack has been involved with theatre for more than 20 years as a writer, actor, and instructor. Mr. Stack has written and directed several full-length plays, one-acts, and scenes for several theaters, performing arts schools, and professional organizations and is currently the lead playwright for Jigsaw Entertainment. He resides in Mount Horeb, WI.