A murder mystery where the detective is a church priest and the murder of a single person happened four times by four different people. In this one-of-a-kind mock-serious suspense thriller titled I killed Roy Mathily enacted at LTG auditorium by Roobaroo Theatre Group, the suspense revolved not around who killed Roy Mathily, but who didn’t.
The first half of the play sets the premise with the primary question –– how can four people kill the same man at the same time at four different places? The second half tries to unravel the mystery completely based on logic without any farce.
“Since the whole play is performed in the same setting of the church and has confessions by four people one after another, claiming to have murdered Roy Mathily, the tricky part was to write the sequence that could hold the interest of the audience. So we tried to create drama in how these four characters reach there to confess,” said Sidhant Mago, the director of the play.
Writing the script, indeed, must have been one of the most challenging part for a play of this kind. “This is a kind of play which we could not have left with an open ending. We had to answer each and every question that might come in the minds of the audience and that’s what we have tried to do,” concludes Sarthak Parashar, who wrote the play along with Sidhant.
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[1] http://archive.asianage.com/content/shobhaa-de
