Committed to Murder

“Committed to Murder” is a comedic murder mystery for dinner theater.  I wrote this a couple of years ago for my theater company, RedruM Mystery Theater.  After producing it to great applause (and even a small profit!), I decided to release it to the public domain under the Creative Commons licensing system.

Through the beauty of the internet and just-in-time publishing, I can now claim to be a published playwright.  You can preview it and purchase an electronic or paper copy at Lulu.com.

Here’s the quick description:

James Wiltshire, head psychiatrist and administrator of “Colonel Wiltshire’s Asylum for the Mentally Diminished and Old Women”, knows the pressures of running a four-generation family business. With rumors swirling that his board of directors may be questioning the Asylum’s profitability, Dr. Wiltshire has decided to hold a fund-raiser to offset some of the more difficult to explain “expenses” he’s incurred. But he has more than just the board to contend with — a resentful head nurse, a patient multi-layered in psychosis, an overly ambitious PR man, twin executive assistants, and a conniving board member, all have their reasons to hope Dr. Wiltshire takes an early “retirement”.