Murder In The Magnolias
by Tim J Kelly, Tim Kelly

A Lampoon of "Southern" Plays

What happens when you parody characters and plots from almost every Southern play imaginable, and sprinkle them with the flavor of Gone With the Wind?

You get the hilarious Murder in the Magnolias.

Colonel Rance Chickenwing has kicked the bucket, leaving the secret of his buried treasure for a houseful of demented relatives to discover.

There's Bubba Kamrowski, who juggles bowling balls in a luncheonette; the delicate Blanche De Blank, whose fiancé drowned in the quarry behind the Veronica Lake Casino; Thornbird, the flaky poet, whose personality is split so many ways, he's fractured; the cartoonish Lawyer Possum whose only paying client is an alligator.

There's the movie queen, Princess Lotta Kargo, who claims she's the Colonel's wife.

And Amanda Chickenwing, who attempts to sell subscriptions to the Tudball Tattler.

Soon, there's another death and the mystery at Belle Acres must be solved by Sheriff Billy Jerk.

Toss in a prehistoric garden complete with murderous honeysuckle vines, yapping hound dogs, a Voodoo Woman, a menacing hurricane, a suspicious state engineer and a series of devastatingly hilarious "monologues," and you've got a pretty good idea of the fun in this off-the-wall spoof.