Beautiful and Kind

Murder Mystery: 14 actors, gender variable

I didn’t know Sibyl but to be totally honest I really, really disliked her. I’m sure that’s terrible to say and a sin but it’s the God’s honest truth. And I don’t feel bad for saying it. Didn’t like her. Didn’t know her, didn’t like her.

I don’t know anyone who did--know her or like her.

After a mysterious and popular student is murdered, her classmates take to Instagram to memorialize her. As the layers of her life are uncovered through progressively-bizarre social media posts, those investigating the death learn that the key to solving the crime lies in examining the nature of the Internet itself. This play was written during the pandemic to be performed via Zoom.

In development with Chicago Public Schools.