The play’s unique ending, utilizing secret ballots gathered at intermission from the audience, determines the killer in this Billy St. Simon III (played by the same actor who plays the elderly Simon) is determined to find his grandfather’s killer, with the help of detective Mike Davis. Predictably, the lights go out, and Simon is discovered murdered. Of course, the rejected heirs are not pleased, so it’s not surprising when they roam the old mansion carrying such items as an ax, a gun and poison. Then Lois delivers the bombshell! Within hours this will becomes invalid. His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals that he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants. Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will. And it’s up to your audience to decide who actually did it! Each of the heirs to the tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and the motive to do away with him. Turn the game Clue into a play and you have the masterfully entertaining Murder’s in the Heir!’ Almost every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder. Written by local, award-winning playwright Jonathan Cook THIS PLAY CONTAINS MATURE THEMES, ADULT LANGUAGE AND GUN VIOLENCE Now, let us take a glimpse at the past, present, and future of this place called Mayor’s Income, Tennessee. A place where people who visit, even momentarily, get a weird feeling that its residents are hiding something from the rest of us. And Mayor’s Income, Tennessee, is a very real place. In SOME PLACE CALLED MAYOR’S INCOME, TENNESSEE, we will open a door to this other reality. A work of fiction to you, but very real in some other place. Entertain this thought for a moment: What if every time an author writes a novel, a poet writes a poem, or every time a playwright writes a play, the events created in those stories become very real, set somewhere else in their own reality. These characters are not real, and every piece of dialogue they speak are just words on a page. And that’s because it’s a place that doesn’t exist in this reality. It’s a location that you won’t be able to find on any map or your fancy GPS-enabled smart phones. They’re all set in the same town – some place called Mayor’s Income, Tennessee. Each short play can stand on its own, but they’re all tied together by one theme. SOME PLACE CALLED MAYOR’S INCOME, TENNESSEE, is a full-length play that is made up of a collection of short, episodic plays.
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