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.
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- 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.
Categories
- Target Audience High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
- Performing Group Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group | Dinner Theatre
- Genre Comedy
- ISBN(13) 9780871298089
Customer Reviews
Such a wonderful evening of fun and entertainment!
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.
"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!
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.
Hints, Tips, and Tricks
Unit Set - Perfect length to partner with a restaurant for dinner theatre.
We kept staging very simple. The audience enjoyed looking at the clues during intermission and then questioning the actors.
Production Map
| Location | City | State | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Avenue Elementary School | Fort Payne | AL | 03/10/2025 | 03/13/2025 |
| Central Linn High School | Halsey | OR | 04/18/2025 | 04/19/2025 |
| Colbert County High School | Leighton | AL | 04/25/2025 | 04/26/2025 |
| Kings Mountain High | Kings Mountain | NC | 05/02/2025 | 05/04/2025 |
Gallery
You Have the Right to Remain Dead - Theatre Off The Square, Weatherford, TX
You Have the Right to Remain Dead - Bennington Community Theater, Bennington, VT
You Have the Right to Remain Dead - Mason Community Players, Inc., Mason, OH
Also By These Authors
Laureen Catlin, Mason Community Players, Inc., Mason, Ohio