REQUIEM FOR MURDER – PLAY ABOUT COMMITTING MURDER

It takes one hell of a plan to orchestrate murder. To play all sides and think of the minute details that would have you avoid suspicion. To be a killer whether you actually pull the trigger or not. Ollie would know. He’s done his fair share of scheming without getting his hands dirty. Now for the coup de grâce that would end his suffering: doing away with mother. If you ask him, she had it coming in this play about committing murder. Same can’t be said for Alex though or even the people who seem to die (inside as well) just from encountering Oliver Brooks. Perhaps he never really recovered from Rupert’s death. That would explain the downward spiral that has him at the mercy of the step-brother he never knew existed all his life. In Requiem for Murder, a drama in two acts, death is only the beginning.

If you’ve died before…you can die again.

Read Prelude to Murder featuring the same characters by Stan Thompson.

Author: Stan Thompson

Genre: Drama, Crime, Play about Committing Murder

Type: Two-Act Play

Cast: Main Characters: 2M 1F. Total cast 7M 2F

Ages of the actors: 7 in their twenties, 1 in their forties, 1 in her sixties

Suitable for: Adults

Length: Ninety minutes

Set:  Ollie’s office at the De Vere Art Gallery, Brighton, Ollie’s kitchen at his house in Hove, near Brighton, Visiting Hall, Lewes Prison, near Brighton, Beach café on Brighton’s seafront, Hotel bar in Brighton,  The ‘haunted house’ fairground attraction, Brighton Pier,  A church in Brighton. 

To facilitate prompt scene changes, this play relies heavily on very simple sets with minimal furnishings, supplemented with projected background images, and the use of atmospheric sound effects.

Directors are recommended to consider plain backdrops with simple flats, which can be adjusted easily to suit large and small stages.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – building tension to a dramatic climax

Read a Sample of the Script

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Copyright © November 2019 Stan Thompson and Off The Wall Play Publishers

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