Murder Mystery Script Package
Murder Between the Wickets - Chris McDermott (2000)
(9,144 words - including Dramatis Personae)
4 male characters; 4 female characters
Set in a secondary school cricket pavilion in 1978, Murder Between the Wickets lets us peer into the internecine rivalries that are prevalent in the Abingdon Comprehensive School staff room. Godfrey Terry, sports master-cum-English teacher, never doubts his own abilities, in the classroom, on the games field and with the ladies. Trevor Ford is his long-suffering Head of Department whose jealousy may persuade him to murder. But if that's his aim he might just have to get in a queue.
French teacher Anna Higgenbottom holds a strong distaste for Terry's condescending ways. In this she has allies in English teacher and ardent feminist Linda Truman, whose rightful position as second-in-the- department has gone to Terry, and feisty Diane Blundell whose job is at stake because Terry's dishonest ways have led her to be compared unfavourably with her colleague in the eyes of the Headteacher. Helen Keane completes the female members of the cast.
She suffers from a growing addiction to heroin and fears that Terry is about to use this in order to make life extremely difficult for her. Helen's drugs are provided for her by Major Sernberg, a relic from World War Two, whose apparent unworldliness belies a calculating and manipulative heart. Eric "Ricky" Bonsall completes the cast. Ricky is envious of Terry's sporting prowess and has no doubt that he, not Terry, should have been selected staff cricket team captain.
The cricket pitch should be the theatre for derring-do but, unfortunately, dastardly deeds are the substitute. Terry is hit on the head by a ball bowled at him at great speed, bringing him to the ground. But was the act deliberate or was it an accident? The answer lies in the motives and methods of our potential felons, one at least of whom has committed 'Murder Between the Wickets'.
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| Music - play lengths | |
| Opening | 00:50 seconds |
| Play Out | 00:11 seconds |
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