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Blue Murder

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 5m

Peter Nichols

Blue Murder
by Peter Nichols

Subtitled "a play or two", Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury in 1963 and the drin's are laced with cyanide. The'second half, A Game of Soldiers, is a Whitehall farce taking place in'st James's Pal…

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 5m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Subtitled "a play or two", Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury in 1963 and the drin's are laced with cyanide. The'second half, A Game of Soldiers, is a Whitehall farce taking place in'st James's Palace. A dramatist has brought his completed play to be censored but the Lord Chamberlain's Men have a few shameful secrets of their own ...
  • Time Period 1960s
  • Setting Foreign Bodies: composite set: a study, a sitting-room
    A Game of Soldiers: an elegant room
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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