You Have the Right to Remain Dead

by Pat Cook
by Special Arrangements with Dramatic Publishing Co.
Performed December 7-8, 2001

Program for You Have the Right to Remain Dead

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!

Cast:
Chris Besler as Harnell Chesterton
Jeremy Odell as Officer Bainbridge
Emily Carnahan as Blanche LaToure
Dan VonHolten as Arnold/Big Daddy
Amanda Whorley as Doris/Sweet Mama
Melinda Preece as Lois/Savannah/Man1
Ryan Campbell as Steve/Earl/Man2
Amber Hoffelder as Leigh/Hyacinth
Jason Stofleth as Ajax/Clete/Man3
Erin Binkley as Trudy Marsh

Directors: Kathy Foerster and Josh Morgan

Stage Manager: Brian Nye

Advisor: Kathy Foerster