by Jim Christian
A university field trip to study toxins of desert flora and fauna turns into a one-way trip for it’s leader…and everyone has good cause to see that he doesn’t return alive.
PLAY DETAILS:
- ORDER #3084
- Characters: 5m 3w
Dr. Kenneth Powers – lazy, self-serving & successful author…and plagiarist
Dr. Gail Barkley – brilliant and hard-working Professor of Zoology
Wally Burkis – self-styled adventurer and guide for the field trip
Cookie Preston Wentworth – non-traditional student, she has returned to college for fun
Lester Preston – Cookie’s out-of-work brother…an aspiring soap opera actor
Jimmy Hosseppian – overachieving graduate teaching assistant
Timmy Pallegrino – science nerd with no social life outside of the classroom
Heather Bliss – student whose GPA is based on playing up to faculty members
PERUSAL COPIES
- The PERUSAL PAGES file for Doomed On The Desert’s Edge will be available by clicking DoomedPERUSAL The PDF file is the first act of the play and all other pertinent information about the play.
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- $30 (for Performance Package: 1 Script, 1 set of sleuthing sheets, other materials needed)
- Performance License & Performance Package emailed to you (you must return the license signed)
- Permission to make multiple copies for your group only (up to 15 copies, including technical)
- $60 Royalty for the first performance
- $45 — Royalty for each additional performance
- Following your performance run, you must also sign the “Certificate of Destruction” indicating that all copies of the script sent to you, including the electronic PDF original, have been destroyed, and that nothing has been distributed to others. The performance license is good for 365 days, after that time a new performance license must be issued.
- $30 (for Performance Package: 1 Script, 1 set of sleuthing sheets, other materials needed)
- Professional Rights quoted upon application to us.
PRODUCTIONS
- Chameleon’s Murder Mystery Theatre — 1988- 2014
BILLING CREDITS
The following is how the credits should read in all programs, posters, fliers, handbills and other promotional advertising for the show:
Doomed On The Desert’s Edge
A Chameleon’s Murder Mystery
by
Jim Christian
NOTE: The names of the Playwright(s), Composer, Lyricist, and Bookwriter shall be equal in size, type, coloring, boldness, and prominence. No billing shall appear in type larger or more prominent than the billing to the Authors except for the title of the play.
ALSO:
THIS NOTICE MUST APPEAR IN ALL PROGRAMS, ON ALL POSTERS AND PUBLICITY MATERIALS AND INTERNET ADVERTISING/WEBPAGES FOR THE PLAY:
“Doomed On the Desert’s Edge is presented through special arrangement with Leicester Bay Theatricals. All authorized materials are also supplied by LBT, www.leicesterbaytheatricals.com”
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