The Pen Is Deadlier
by Fred Carmichael

Name: The Pen Is Deadlier
Brand: Fred Carmichael
SKU: 9780573613814
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)

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Highlights

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1950sInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

This exciting mystery contains two murders with ever mounting excitement and explores the fascinating psychological overtones and undertones that impel the murder to the crime.

Atop one of the fashionable Hollywood Hills, Clair Clarendon, top gossip columnist, reigns supreme over her helpless targets.

Their lives and loves are ruled by her pen and it is not surprising that all of them could wish her dead.

Ideal for college and little theatre groups, and recommended for advanced high school drama clubs as it provides superb acting assignments for the whole cast, plus a challenging directing job.

Audiences attending this play's premiere performances at the Dorset Playhouse, Vermont, were loud and long in their applause.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Mrs. Griggs a middle-aged housekeeper.	—	—	a middle-aged housekeeper.
Clair Clarendon a sharp, brittle and brilliant woman, knows what she wants and gets it.	female	—	a sharp, brittle and brilliant woman, knows what she wants and gets it.
Phyllis early twenties, attractive, but somehow shy.	—	—	early twenties, attractive, but somehow shy.
Virginia Morrow young and extrememly beautiful.	—	—	young and extrememly beautiful.
Jeff Oxford early thirties and very attractive in a "pretty boy" way.	—	—	early thirties and very attractive in a "pretty boy" way.
George O. Grenoff an aging director with a sarcastic sense of humor born of his lack of great success.	male	—	an aging director with a sarcastic sense of humor born of his lack of great success.
Isabel Ilsley no longer a leading lady, but still extremely beautiful in a hardened way.	female	—	no longer a leading lady, but still extremely beautiful in a hardened way.
Wilma Hood a former ingenue but now with the lines and bulges of middleage.	—	—	a former ingenue but now with the lines and bulges of middleage.
Lieutenant Maples a detective.	—	—	a detective.
Horton a young man in his late twenties, incisive and with a sharp sense of humor.	male	—	a young man in his late twenties, incisive and with a sharp sense of humor.