Showtime In Spondon

Locko Amateur Dramatic Society will be presenting All Over But The Shooting on June the 4th at 8 PM at the Village Hall, Spondon, Derbyshire England. If you are in the region, not only do I recommend the play but I highly recommend spending time in Spondon. For information check out the Events page of Spondon Community Association.

Cattle Call For Clavert County

My friends at the Patuxent Playhouse in Calvert County Maryland will be holding auditions for Murder Me Always Friday April 22 from 7 until 9 pm. This murder mystery is one of the more popular scripts in the Play-Dead collection.

Some Banquet with Some Show

I received a notice from the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services that they will feature the mystery mystery play Some Show (about a murder) for their Foster Parent Appreciation Banquet on May 20th this year. A great idea to feature something different at a Banquet instead of guest speakers, magicians or clowns that manipulate balloons into amusing creatures. Not that there's anything wrong with magicians, clowns or guest speakers, I just think it nice to change things up a bit. You know, sort of like a balloon twisted into the shape of a "liger".

New Murder Mystery Script Available

Fresh from its 2-week run here in St. Louis, the new murder mystery All Over But The Shooting is now available. The premise of this play centers around and audition for a murder mystery and all of the typical people one might see at an audition. Well, except for the dead guy. Usually the scripts include the audience as part of the overall setting, such as a wedding reception as in "I'm Getting Murdered in the Morning" but "All Over But the Shooting" unfolds as if the room were empty and only the actors were present. The audience are merely voyeurs sitting behind the "fourth wall" observing the rituals of an audition but they are eventually "imagined" by the actors and brought in to help them solve the mystery.