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John Ball's In The Heat of the Night
[29695]

$8.95

ISBN 978-0-573-69892-7

Adapted by Matt Pelfrey

Drama

8m, 2f

Acclaimed playwright Matt Pelfrey’s adaptation of John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night based on the award-winning book that inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series.

It’s 1962. A hot August night lies heavy over the small town of Argo, Alabama. A dead white man is discovered and the local police arrest a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs. The police discover that their prime suspect is in fact a homicide detective from California. As it happens, Tibbs becomes the racially-tense community’s single hope in solving a brutal murder that is turning up no witnesses, no motives, and no clues.

“A tight and timely thriller!” – Theatermania.com

“It’s eminently stageworthy…a tense and exciting story that follows the book's basic plot but offers viewers a distinctly new and different In the Heat of the Night” – CurtainUp

“The play is taut and startlingly resonant, even as it deals with events taking place nearly 50 years ago. Pelfrey's work is economical and uncompromising…suspenseful, thrilling, and stunningly theatrical.” – Nytheatre.com

FEE: $75 per performance

Character Descriptions:
ACTOR #1: Chief Gillespie
ACTOR #2: Virgil Tibbs
ACTOR #3: Sam Wood
ACTOR #4: Pete/Man In Shadows/Klansman 1
ACTOR #5: Harvey Oberst/Purdy/Klansman
ACTOR #6: Charles Tatum/Endicott/Al Jennings
ACTOR #7: Coroner/Mayor Schubert/Klansman
ACTOR #8: Eric Kaufman/Ralph/Klansman
ACTOR #9: Melanie Tatum
ACTOR #10: Noreen Purdy

When double or triple casting, many other configurations are possible. The above is how the premier production devided up the roles.
Barfly 1 &2 were not used in the original production.

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