Carly Farrell
The Americus Times-Recorder
PLAINS —
Someone’s going to die in Plains on June 5, and it will be up to a group of dinner guests to piece together how that person died — and who murdered them.
For $25, anyone can attend the mock murder mystery, which will begin at 7 p.m. at Jimmy Carter’s old, legendary, haunted house on the Old Plains Highway, the same road where Carter’s Boyhood Farm is located.
The scene will be set in the long entrance way that extends all the way to the back of the house. There will be a long table set up for guests — and actors — to dine on fried chicken, green beans, macaroni and cheese, a salad — and an award-winning pecan pie the cook is especially proud of. But, a food critic from Atlanta is scripted to show up, who should be quite critical of everything — especially the pie. The cook, of course, will take great offense at the critic’s harsh words, and the scene will spiral from there into a murder.
Kim Fuller, who lives in Plains, wrote the script.
Ellen Harris, a board member on the Plains Better Hometown Committee, hopes people will fill up the 50-ft. dining table. Right now, though, she isn’t sure how many tickets will sell, but she hopes there are just as many people in attendance at the dinner as they had at the masquerade ball, which was more than 80.
“It will be a sit-down dinner, and in the course of the meal, the actors (will be) involved in the murder mystery, and so (will be) the guests,” Harris said. “The guests will get a little notepad and pencil to write notes in. The actors will get up and leave the room for a few minutes and come back over the course of the evening — all except one actor, who will be ‘murdered,’ and the police will come and start questioning people. Then, the guests will be able to start trying to solve the mystery.”
As for the people involved, they will be actors from several community theaters throughout Sumter County.
“We’re all excited,” Harris said.
The event should last about two and a half hours.
