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Murder by Misadventure

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1f, 3m

Edward Taylor

Murder by Misadventure
by Edward Taylor

What happens when two writers who have worked together for years start to hate each other? The team has won awards and made money. Harry Kent has saved and invested and now lives with his glamorous wife in a sun drenched luxury flat high above the Sussex coast, where the play is set.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1f, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller

Details

Summary
What happens when two writers who have worked together for years start to hate each other? The team has won awards and made money. Harry Kent has saved and invested and now lives with his glamorous wife in a sun drenched luxury flat high above the Sussex coast, where the play is set. It is a hi tech paradise with only one snag: it's build on the site of an Ancient British sacrificial stone where black magic was practiced and now there are strange noises in the night. Paul Riggs has spent his fees on booze and birds, and he lives in dread of bookies' heavies. Harry wants to break the partnership that is Paul's lifeline, but Paul knows a sinister secret from Harry's past. They are therefore locked together in a dance from which murder seems the only escape and they have just plotted the perfect crime for their latest TV film.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A penthouse flat
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Media

"It has a last-scene denouement which turns every available table, until you are left giddy with bewilderment ..." - Evening Standard

Music

  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Author

Edward Taylor

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