

Murder Is A Game
Fred Carmichael
Murder at Minsing Manor: A Nancy Boys Mystery
by Michael Simon and Richard Simon
Full-length play, Comedy/Mystery/Thriller 8 males, 2 females
The only play by outside playwrights ever to be produced by the legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Murder at Minsing Manor brims with irreverent wit.
TV horror-show host Marius Minsing is killed on the air, much to the dismay of would-be detectives Buddy and Bob (adolescent boys played by women) who are his biggest fans.
Minsing's cross dressing lover, finds herself the head of Minsing Manor, a Gothic mansion in postwar suburbia.
While the murderer stalks, she struggles to support the household without implicating herself, to protect Minsing's live-in protégé (a half man/half woman sideshow veteran) and to keep at bay the forces of authority: church, state, and the mob.
Bob and Buddy's sleuthing unintentionally brings this mystery to its shattering conclusion.
REVIEWS
"Happy, dizzy and very pleasurable."
- N.Y.
Times
"[An] antic romp."
- New Yorker
"High flying hilarity."
- Manhattan Mirror
"Outrageously funny."
- Greenwich Village Press
"[An] antic romp."
— New Yorker
"High flying hilarity."
— Manhattan Mirror
"Outrageously funny."
— Greenwich Village Press
"Happy, dizzy and very pleasurable."
— N.Y. Times
Murder At Minsing Manor is a American comedy play written by Richard Simon and published by Samuel French in London (2023).
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