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 Rupert Holmes
Thriller
2m, 2f, (plus 1 surprise guest star)
Interior
This truly unique thriller by the author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood broke box office records at the Pasadena Playhouse and thrilled Broadway audiences. Accomplice begins as a straightforward English thriller in a country house. A sex-starved wife and her lover plan to murder her stuffy husband. The husband is murdered on stage, but reappears this is actually a dress rehearsal for an out of town try out and the murder victim is the playwright and director. He, however, is plotting to murder his wife, the leading lady in his play, so that his affair with her leading man can proceed unimpeded. A surprise character comes out of the audience, revealing that something entirely different is actually going on: a cast member is being brilliantly and effectively set up in retaliation for his cruel actions which caused the suicide of a friend.
"A delight. It is humorous, odd, scary, wildly dramatic, adult, adolescent in short, impossible to dislike."-Pasadena Star News "Miss it a your peril."-The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
"A breathless ride through an ever shifting series of planes."- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Part murder mystery, part sex farce and completely entertaining....Suspenseful, charming and funny."-USA Today
FEE: $75 per performance.
Production notes and Music are available to licensed groups. For information, please see author’s notes at end of script. Click below for additional materials: Accomplice (Posters)
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