Main Stage Audition

AN OLD FASHIONED FAMILY MURDER by Joe DiPietro

A murder. A mystery. A mother. It’s a dark and stormy night at the mansion of elderly Colonel Claythorne, and the pompous murder-mystery author Arthur Whittington is holding court with the Colonel’s family. When Whittington shares the news that the Colonel has modified his will to cut out one of his daughters – though which daughter won’t be revealed until the Colonel’s death – tempers flare. By the time (junior) Detective Paul Peck arrives at the house, there’s been a murder, and everyone is a suspect. It soon becomes clear that nothing – and no one – is what it seems.