School Plays

Murder At The Asylum

Synopsis:

​Dr Mc Leod looks after a group of very special patients in his exclusive, very expensive private psychiatric clinic in the picturesque village of Killin in Scotland. All of them are convinced they are great personalities from world history. Dr McLeod and his team are devoted to each and every one of the ‘guests’ entrusted to them. Dr McLeod has developed personal therapies for each individual – these are not uncontroversial among his staff, however.

But for weeks, a series of tragic accidents has kept the clinic team on its toes. Four patients, namely Napoleon Bonaparte, Mme Curie, Admiral Lord Nelson and Queen Marie Antoinette have died in quick succession. And now Julius Caesar shoots Adolf Hitler with an ‘unloaded’ pistol in the middle of rehearsals for a play.

 Another accident – or perhaps even murder?

The police are called in to solve the deaths. But the dying continues. Marilyn Monroe is poisoned right under the eyes of the police, and Julius Caesar breaks his neck in a fall from a window.

The incompetent Inspector Grant arrests the wrong suspect and it finally takes a Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery.

‘Murder At The Asylum’ is a play that thrives on fast and witty dialogue, slapstick and ‘historical’ personalities. The actors run riot as crazy patients.