ALL IN THE PAST – MURDER MYSTERY PLAY SCRIPTS
All in the Past is a murder mystery set in 1934 Shanghai. Vera is a White Russian expatriate turned con-artist whose latest scheme is a psychic business she runs with her landlady, Lily. She is approached by a customer with a proposition to find a woman from his past, who he believes is currently in Shanghai. Vera takes the offer but soon learns that this proposition entails more than a paycheck when the missing woman is found murdered in the home of Vera’s ex-boyfriend. She then embarks on an investigation that forces her to confront demons from the victim’s past as well as her own in order to solve the mystery and exonerate an innocent man.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
NYU Shanghai’s Theatre Club, Shanghai, China – 2018
Author: Lauren Ennis
Genre: Murder mystery play scripts, whodunit
Type: Two act, 2 act play
Cast: 11-12, 7F, 5M (small parts may be doubled)
Ages of the actors: 20’s up. The leads are in their thirties but can be 40’s as well.
Length: Two hours
Suitable for: Pg 12 (violence)
Set: Various – various apartments, offices, backstage at a club
Level of difficulty: Building the tension 7/10
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