Write Me a Murder
Vic Pompadour
(reclining on the couch), an aspiring
magician, discusses an alliance with Zack,
or is it Mack?
|
Hood
Sprigget,
Mr and Mrs. Old Codger. |
Rest in Peace
Horace
discusses his demise with Emma. |
Virgil’s
Wedding
 Virgil
) and Margaret
finally get hitched.
Reverend Davis
performs the ceremony. |
| A
stormy night in a mansion in the middle of nowhere, the
perfect setting for murder! Or was it? Were
the characters in Write Me a Murder actually succumbing to
Mr. Fortune’s diabolical plan for them to turn on each
other so that one would win one million dollars by committing
nine murders? Or were they simply rehearsing the play that
would earn each of them $100,000? The audience was kept “in
the dark” until the final scene in this comedic “murder” mystery. |
Hood
was performed by the beginning drama class. It was a parody
of Robin Hood, using slapstick humor and feeble jokes to
make the audience laugh. Will Robin Hood marry
his long time fiancée Marian or will
he choose Little Sprigget daughter of poor peasants
displaced from their jobs by the Evil Sheriff of Nottingham?
Who ever heard of a Soothsayer, Native Guide, Body Guard,
or Personal Assistant Cassandra Bingham
French ,
in the original tale of Robin Hood? No one, I can assure
you. However, after the performance everyone came away with
history rewritten. |
How do you teach your rude,
self-centered, egotistical, vain husband a lesson? This
is the premise of
Rest in Peace. Horace goes to the hospital
for a simple physical and winds up dead...or so he thinks.
During his ordeal, he meets two “ghosts,” Emma
and Brandy , who discuss
options for his afterlife. Then, just as the decision from “above” is
delivered, Horace is “punked.” His death is all
a part of a “candid camera” type show to teach
him to treat others better. When he asks his wife, Hazel
about Emma and Brandy, she has no idea
who he is talking about! Were they “real” ghosts? |
“He loves me, he loves me not.” Margaret
asks herself this question, but not quite so eloquently;
In Virgil’s Wedding, comedy reigns!
Virgil can’t quite convince his beloved
Margaret that she is beautiful, and he
does love her. Perhaps that’s because the most romantic
thing he has said is, “No one milks cows with as much
poise as you have.” When Virgil gets trapped in his
best man, Ellard’s, lizard trap the night
before his wedding, Margaret is almost left alone at the
alter. But, Virgil escapes the trap and arrives at the nick
of time to prove his love and to marry Margaret! |
