In a past life, I ran a business, with two co-writers, called Murdering The Text. We provided murder mystery play scripts to be used as fundraisers by amateur theatre groups, schools and small fundraising organisations.
Although Murdering The Text is no longer in existence, you can still purchase our murder mystery play scripts. Costings are on each individual play page.
Murder Mystery Plays
A Brush, with Death – 6 female, 3 male
A Show To Die For – 4 female, 3 male and 3 other performers
Bad Fortune – 5 female, 1 male
Bat in the Belfry – 5 female, 4 male, 3 teenagers (2 must be girls)
Bride and Doom – 3 female, 4 male
Bringing Down The House – 5 female, 4 male
Dead Fit – 6 female, 4 male
Death on the Wild Side – 5 female, 3 male
Festive Reapings – 5 female, 3 male
Hens – 7 female, including 1 teenager
Off The Rails – 5 female, 3 male
On Her Way Out – 5 female, 2 male
The Blunt End – 8 female, 7 male and other performers
The Blunt End (reduced cast) – 5 female, 3 male
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestickmaker – 5 female, 4 male, a girl, 2 or 3 customers
The Crossed Swords – 5 female, 4 male
The Pecking Order – 5 female, 4 male
The Tangled Web – 5 female, 4 male, waiter or waitress
The Waxworks of Horror – 2 female, 3 male and a female customer
The Waxworks of Horror (all female cast) – 5 female and a screaming customer
Third Time Unlucky – 4 female, 2 male
Thoroughly Murdered Millie – 4 female, 2 male
Mystery Plays (no murder, just a crime to solve)
Crowning Glory – 6 female, 6 male
Pantoland’s Got Talent – 4 female, 4 male and a stage assistant