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THE MORGUE THE MERRIERAdd to Cart
By: Pat CookAdd to Wish List
Script: $7.00
Notebook Script: $12.75
   (8.5 x 11 3-ring binder with large margins for notes)
First Performance Royalty: $60.00
Each Additional Performance: $60.00
Limited Video Rights: $30.00
Limited Streaming/Broadcast Rights: $30.00
Extra Streams: $0.30
Type: Short Play
Genres: Dark Comedy, Mystery
Theme: Death
Running Time: 45-50 minutes
Speaking Cast: 3 females, 4 males, 2-4 either, 9-11 total cast
Flexibility: doubling possible, gender flexible
ISBN: 978-1-61588-209-0
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Recent Productions:
Waterford Valley High School - St. John's, NL, Canada
Memorial High School Drama Club - St. Marys, OH
Twiggs Academy - Jeffersonville, GA
Sauk Prairie Theatre Guild - Sauk City, WI
West Salem High School - West Salem, WI
Leyden High School 212 - Franklin Park, IL
Madison High School - Rexburg, ID
GSWHS - Gardner, IL
Drummond Area School District - Drummond, WI
Maricopa High School - Maricopa, CA
Medstead school - Medstead, SK, Canada
San Jacinto High School - San Jacinto, CA
The Hayloft - Ashley, ND
Paradise Hill School - Paradise Hill, SK, Canada
Independence High School - Columbus, OH
Laughlin High School - Laughlin, NV
Westview High School Theatre Department - Martin, TN
Mickle Middle School - Lincoln, NE
Glasgow High School: Performing Arts - Glasgow, KY
Rural Roots Theatre Company - Dunrobin, ON
Rural Root Theatre Company - Dunrobin, ON, Canada
Madison High School - Rexburg, ID
Bovina High School - Bovina, TX
Canton High School - Canton, SD
McCrory High School - McCrory, AR
 
Synopsis
“You ever wonder what their stories are?” asks Jane as she looks around the mortuary. She then lets us in on her secret. “I hear dead people!” Jane’s secret becomes our reality as each corpse ‘wakes’ to tell us their story. Take, for instance, Chester who tries to recapture his youth by trying to play rock and roll with a faulty guitar amplifier. His wife, Ida, thinks his playing is terrible, but he believes he’ll be another member of the Grateful Dead. Then there’s Lydia, who has to wait hand and foot on her whining, demanding Aunt Polly. “Why does everything always happen to me?” Aunt Polly complains. Little does she know she’s in for the biggest surprise of her life! One by one, we hear the corpses’ stories, and one by one, none of them turn out as planned. Calling for an easy skeletal set and a cast of 11, this oddball comedy comes to you from the author of Let’s Hang Him and Read the Will and Caught in the Act and is sure to keep you laughing to the grave!
 

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