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DEATH BY DESSERT
ISBN: 978-1-61588-029-4
Types: Full Length, Dinner Theatre
Genres: Comedy, Mystery
Themes: Dinner Theatre, Audience Participation
Duration: 75 minutes
Speaking Cast: 6-8 females, 6-7 males, 1 either (13-16 total cast)
Flexibility: 2-20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible
SYNOPSIS: It's dinnertime, and you're invited to a meal so good, it's to die for! In New York's little Italy, the Donnaducce family and the Duccedonni family have been feuding for a generation, while operating two competing Italian restaurants that share a common wall. At rise, the building's landlord is dead at center stage, and everyone is suspect – from the old-world Italian grandmother and mafia don grandfather to the passionate chefs and bumbling waitstaff.
Flashing back in time, the story is told by its victim, who alternately narrates and participates in the action. As customers in the restaurant, the audience is served a delectable meal, but they don't just sit back and watch; each table must cast their vote for whodunit! Will the murderer be ferreted out? Will the feud ever be reconciled? What are the hidden truths about what happened all those years ago?
This offbeat comedic mystery will delight the audience with its fast pace and entertaining story, and engage performers with its host of colorful characters. The play's interactivity makes it ideal for fundraisers, and it can be played with or without the dinner theatre element. Single set is simple and requires no connecting backstage space.
Buckhannon Community Theatre Buckhannon, WV Nodaway Community Theater Company Maryville, MO Thomas Jefferson Middle Rancho Mirage, CA Edison Junior High School Rock Island, IL Glen Rose High School Glen Rose, TX Cement Public School Cement, OK
Chelsea Middle School Chelsea, AL Haystack Productions Garson, MB, Canada Sesser-Valier High School Sesser, IL Cedar Creek Christian School Jacksonville, FL Noe Middle School Louisville, KY Harvard-Westlake School Los Angeles, CA Tampa Bay Christian Academy Tampa, FL Fowlerville Community Theatre Fowlerville, MI Corinth MS-HS Drama Club Corinth, NY Coal Creek Canyon K-8 Golden, CO Barton High School Lexa, AR Howard W. Blake School Of The Arts Tampa, FL Memorial Baptist church Beckley, WV THREE CREEKS K-8 ARVADA, CO Edsel Ford High School Dearborn, MI Hickory Grove Christian School Charlotte, NC Pleasant Ridge HS Easton, KS Ankeny Christian Academy Ankeny, IA Oneida High School Oneida, NY First Presbyterian Church Waynesburg, PA Victory Church Lakeland, FL Heritage Christian School Marion, OH Van Vleck High School Van Vleck, TX Grant Union Jr Sr High School John Day, OR Stage West Drama Club Downingtown, PA Burlington High School Burlington, WI Baldwin PALC Wailuku, HI Mauriceville Middle School Orange, TX Milford Christian Academy Milford, OH Pelham High School Pelham, NH GBCS Prosperity, WV Haven High School Haven, KS South O'Brien Community School Paullina, IA
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