All About Murder

Successful playwrights, Max and Nigel, are struggling for inspiration, and their financial resources are rapidly dwindling. Desperately searching for a new idea for their next play, they decide to imagine a victim first and then fit the mystery plot around the dead body.

“We need a victim the audience would cheerfully hate,” says Nigel just before his wife Ann, walks into the playwrights’ studio. Once Ann is selected as the fictional murder victim, the two writers draw on all their experience to construct a real life murder. Their best plot in years will only have one performance...