Script In Hand Plays take you back to the golden age of radio where actors step up to the mic, scripts in hand, to bring fast-paced, laugh-out-loud mystery-comedies to life before a live studio audience.
The laughs come fast and furious in these royalty-free comedies that take a skewed but affectionate look back at classic radio theater and the enduring appeal of a good detective yarn—especially when the cases are this delightfully screwy.
With Script In Hand Plays, theater groups of all sizes can quickly mount an evening of laughs with minimal sets, costumes, and rehearsals. Actors can play multiple roles. Vocal talent is the key. Performers don’t have to meet any pre-conceived physical standards. It’s all part of the fun.
In this collection we meet Dick Shamus, Fictional Detective—ace investigator of the Fictional Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.). Shamus takes the road less traveled and chases crooks down in plays and books, solving the most infamous crimes in literature with off-beat metaphors and a nose for trouble.
“Bite Me”
Shamus confronts a vampire who’s stolen his new flame.
“MacBeth The Knife”
Our gumshoe tangles with an old flame named Lady MacBeth.
“The Big Snooze”
Shamus travels to Peppermint Bay searching for the villain who zotzed his old pal Humpty Dumpty.
“Alias Cinderella”
Shamus faces a beautiful con artist who uses a glass slipper to fool a not-so-charming prince.
“The Really Big Dog Of The Baskervilles”
Shamus is summoned to Sherlock Holmes country by an English lord afraid he is about to suffer a horrible death.
“Generic Hospital”
Shamus enters the melodramatic world of daytime drama at the request of a beautiful woman—with a knife in her back.
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