About the Play:

You Have the Right to Remain Dead is a full-length comedy by Pat Cook. This audience-participation murder mystery features a hilarious cast of actors playing actors playing potential criminals.

You Have the Right to Remain Dead a delightful mixture of murder, mystery and intrigue. You've just settled down in a theatre to solve an audience-participation murder mystery. The narrator comes out and gives you a few "ins and outs" on what to look for in the play. The show starts and you meet Fat Daddy, a rich but vindictive southern gentleman with an equally conniving and scheming family. So you know who's going to die, right? But who will the murderer be? Will it be Sweet Mama, Daddy's pandering wife; Hyacinth, the daughter who's always cleaning the family firearms; Earl the worm, or his overly amorous wife, Savannah; or Clete, the sullen handyman who, for some reason, is in the will? Then Fat Daddy is discovered, dead as a hammer. Except the corpse isn't Daddy's – it's the narrator's! The director comes on stage and the police arrive. Now you have to figure out which of the actors murdered the narrator. And not only are you questioning the cast, but they are questioning you! Yes, you are a suspect as well! You Have the Right to Remain Dead is a frantic mystery-comedy that will have audiences guessing until the last clue is dropped and the last ham overacts.

You Have the Right to Remain Dead is a family friendly comedy that is regularly performed in high school and community theatre productions

Cast: 5 female, 5 male

About the Playwright:

Pat Cook is a Texas-based playwright who has enjoyed a prolific career writing plays for the Community Theatre and School markets. With over 150 plays published by nine publishers, he has delighted audiences with his plays since 1976. Several of his plays have even been translated into Dutch and German.