Dinner/Theatre/Amateur Group or Fundraisers
Miss Bilbey and the Case of the Moss Covered Cleric
A large cast comedy that you can put together in a couple of hours - no lines or moves to learn.
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Miss Bilbey and the Case of the Moss Covered Cleric
We're in the recording studios of a little radio station. A line of chairs and old-fashioned microphones are set in a line in front of the chairs. Strangely, a pile of what looks like random junk is set out on the other side of stage, but set out neatly, some on a table, some on the stage, as if for a purpose. There's a bicycle attached to the stage, coconut shells, a pair of boots set in a kitty litter full of gravel and much more. The actors appear, holding their scripts and sit down on the chairs. Last of all enters another person who sits down solemnly in front of the random junk. The actors start reading their lines from their scripts - and we realize that the mysterious pile of junk is the sound effects department for a very bad radio play.
It's dusk in the English village of Little Willingale on the Glebe and Miss Bilbey - housekeeper, failed opera singer and sleuth - rides her bike through the fog and collides - with the dead body of the vicar. As she solves the mystery, we encounter every cliché of bad radio drama and bad murder mystery - plus a sound effects person who, hilariously, is working like a demon to keep up with what's supposed to be happening. Miss Bilbey and the Case of the Moss Covered Cleric was devised specifically as a fund raiser play for a group that needed to put on a good fund-raiser play very quickly and without learning lines. Linda Aronson has now made it available to the public. Ideal for dinner theatre, possible to do with an all-female cast. it needs only a few hours of rehearsal, with no lines to learn. For scripts and performance rights Australian Plays Org http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1213 |