While
acting in a local "Murder Mystery" , I was struck by the bad
dialogue
and weak formula of the "professionally" written play. The subject matter, tone and dialogue seemed to be aimed a third grade level. I like to think that audiences are smarter and don't want to be "played" to as if they are dumb and won't get anything above grade school humor.
I checked out
some
other "Murder Mysteries" around town and it didn't get much better.
They
consisted of two or three actors passing out scripts to the audience,
demanding
they participate while digesting their prime rib and peach cobbler.
Sure,
some people enjoy the participation approach but some do not. They came
to see a play, not to 'be' the play,( as Zen as that may sound).
Convinced I could write a much better play, a play that was "smart". A play that
contained a real plot with intelligent twists, real jokes that didn't come from the bathroom walls and didn't require the audience to be the cast. Convinced I could do this, I wrote a 'smart and funny' murder mystery. It went over very well. So I wrote another and then another and..
Some friends and fans recommended that I offer these plays to the world at large and not keep them as dust magnets on a shelf. I should allow other groups to interpret these plays and perform them for audiences who wanted to see a murder mystery play that was smart and funny. To participate in a murder
mystery
that didn't involve riding a train or a boat or take a full weekend to
digest. A murder mystery play where they can show up, eat their prime rib or tator tots in peace, laugh a lot, solve the mystery and go home. I have accepted the recommendation and thus.. here
are the plays. " -Lee Mueller
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Of Plays
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