NEW MOTHER an Interactive Drama Live Action Freeform Role Playing Scenario for 9 players (4 male and 5 female) written by Allison Tsai, Tien Chao, and Jill Chan Written as an assignment in English Conversation One, an English as a Foreign Language course taught for freshmen by Dr. Brian David Phillips in the Department of English at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Fall Semester, 1998. Copyright 1998 by Allison Tsai, Tien Chao, and Jill Chan. Police (David and Scarlette) Use this information to ask questions The householder died the day before yesterday for heart attack, his step son murdered yesterday. Catherine, she is mother of Steve, she married twice, worked in this house for house-keeper. When the ex-wife died by cancer after the one year she marry with now husband. Steve, he is Catherine's son, he is smart and cheerful, the householder (his step father) want to he will contenue to do his business, who murdered yesterday. Leon, elder son in this family, he have girl friend whose name Lisa. Jerry, younger son in this family, university student. Alice, youngest sister and only the girl in this family. Lisa, who is Leon's girl friend, her parents died when she was 12 years old. Mary, who is maid long time in this family. Jim, who crazy about Lisa, and also he is the artist. Evidence A necklace in Steve's pocket. Evidence A letter Dear Lisa Forgive us. We have no choice but choosing this way to end our life. RememberDon't be together with the rich, that will destroy your life. Evidence A painting with Lisa and Jim on it. Catherine Use this information to introduce yourself to the group. You became the step mother of this family when the original mother has died of cancer 10 years ago. You have been replacing her as a careful mother throughout these years. However, this is not your first marriage, but the second one. You have a son in your first marriage, whose name is Steve, Steve was murdered last night, and you are suspicious of the other 2 step sons and the daughter because your husband died the day before yesterday and they might kill Steve for heritage. You are classmate of ex-wife at high school. During high school life, she is a beautiful and proud rich person. You are also beautiful and bright person in the class, however your family had economic problem and you had to drop out the school before graduation, and you had to working for family. Your worked at the city but when you broke your first marriage your missed your hometown and went back, found a job at your classmate, now your family's place. Keep this information secret. You are the killer! Steve actually isn't your own child. You killed him for in order to your real child Leon. You envy and hate her because of she al ways laughed at her about the your family back ground. When you was working at the town you met the your first husband, but no longer he was run away from you when your pregnant. When the same time she married to a rich man and enjoy her marriage, you knew about this information you are jealous, And also same the time you and she was pregnant and bare child in same hospital. At the time you thought in order to give your son a better future, you decided exchange the Leon and Steve. Leon Use this information to introduce yourself to the group. You are 22 years old, the biggest son in this family, Steve is actually same age as you, whose mother is Catherine. Your mother died of cancer 10 years ago and your father died the day before yesterday. Catherine is your step mother, she takes very good care of you, sometimes even better than her own son - Steve. You were almost spoiled by her and has always been a self- centered person who never care for other people. You are very greedy and always did things in your own way. When you were high school student, you have known Lisa, who is now your girlfriend. You really fall in love with her and would do anything to please her. She is the only person in the world that you care the most. You both planned get marriage in the future. The death of your father is blow to you the big amount of heritage your father has left. However you might you cannot get the heritage because of the Steve, because your father likes Steve more than you. Keep this information secret unless you are asked. In order to get the heritage, you intended to kill your brothers and sister. However, you didn't kill Steve although everybody is suspicious of you. There's one time you tried to kill your brothers and sister by putting poison into the soup. But you don't know why they didn't drink the soup and are now still alive. Your brothers and sister never have good relationship with you, because you always use your fist instead of brain. You especially treated Steve badly for he is almost the same age as you and your father likes him better than you and might give all the heritage to him. Jerry Use this information to introduce yourself to the group. You are 18, the third son of this family. You are a very smart person who just got into a good university this year. You performed excellently both in your studies and the relationship with other people. Everybody loves you but Leon, who is simply a misanthrope and win no friendship from other people. Catherine is your step mother. Your original mother has died of cancer 10 years ago and throughout these years Catherine has taken good care of you, she especially cares for Leon, that you almost think that she is spoiling him. Leon is your biggest brother and your have a little sister whose name Alice. Steve is the original child of your step mother. You and Steve are really good brothers because you have many things in common. The death of Steve is really a miserable thing for you to bear. You also feel sorry for Catherine because she has lost her only child, and your father. Your father was die in day before Steve murdered. However, you found Catherine extremely calm when facing this sad news. You know she is cover on sadness from everyone. Tell other people this secret. One time you saw your big brother Leon put poison into the soup without been noticed by the maid-Mary, who always prepare meals for the family. You told the other brothers and sisters this beforehand, thus Leon failed to kill you all. Ever since that, you take notice of every movement of Leon so that you can prevent his evil plans from succeeding. You have been a good brother to Steve and Lisa. But you really find your biggest brother --Leon -- a strange person who is so hard to get alone with. He seems to have nothing in common with you at all. Alice Use this information to introduce yourself to the group. You are a beautiful girl in her golden age-16. You are the only daughter and the youngest child in the family. You have 3 brothers, including Steve, who was killed last night. You now study in senior high school, performs excellently both in your studies and in getting along with other people. Your mother has died of cancer 10 year ago and Catherine has been your step mother throughout these years. Steve is her only child who is the same age as your biggest brother Leon. Although Leon came from the same mother as you, you always feel closer to be with Steve instead of Leon. Catherine has been a good mother in those years. You love her although she isn't your original mother. You're also proud of your father, he is a businessman who died in the day before yesterday. You know that Leon was looking for the heritage, but you know about your father like Steve more than Leon. However, you and Lisa, Leon's girlfriend have become good friends, You share your thoughts together and in a conversation one time, you learn from her that there was a man named Jim who loves Lisa for years. Jim is an artist who tends to act according to his impulse and free will. Lisa only loves Leon and refused Jim again and again, but Jim never gave up. Instead, he keeps telling Lisa that Leon isn't suitable for her .You really don't like Jim. You know that Jim has a habit of going to a psychologist every week, and he consults the doctor even more recently. Keep this information secret unless you are asked. Steve was your brother as well as your good friend, he was killed last night. In fact, you just have a pleasant talk with him when your father die's night he's worried that Leon might do something bad to him. And you saw the Steve and Leon argue about the heritage. Lisa Use this information to introduce yourself. You are the girl friend of Leon, the big son of this family. You and Leon were high school classmates and fall in love with each other eventually. You are kind-hearted girl with extreme beauty. You love Leon so much that you will be by his side no matter what happened. However, you are an orphan, your parents committed suicide due to business failures when you were 12 years old. You were brought up by your ant has always been an independent person. The death of your parents was really a blow for you and you always keep your parents in memory. You and Alice is really good friend, you always visit to her. By the way you really annoy about Jim who loves you. You want to tell about the Jim, but you might Leon will be do something bad for him. Background. Your father and Leon's father are partners in business world. Your father has always been a respectable person in his field. However, your parents committed because of business scandal, it was said that father receive bribes from a real estate company. But you know that your father is an honest man and would be the last one to receive those brides. They left nothing to you except a letter they wrote before ending their lives. There wrote about take care of Lisa's future and they didn't want to be Lisa together with the rich. Keep this secret from Leon and tell to Mary - who working in this house, if you want to. You know Leon came from a rich family, but you just couldn't help fallen in love with him. It was not until when Leon's father was lying on bed, dying, did he tell you the truth hidden behind the death of your parents. In fact, he is the one who got all these bribes and pass the bug to your father. You never told Leon this secret because you didn't want to hurt him and to damage the relationship between you two. Mary Use this information to introduce yourself to the group. You have been a maid in this family for a long time and has always been a loyal person that everyone in the family trusts you a lot. You also know very well of the history of this family. You know that the original hostess of this family has died of cancer 10 years ago and the father in the family has married another woman-Catherine. Catherine was a divorced woman and this is her second marriage and she worked together with you. Steve is her only child that he has in her first marriage. Leon, Jerry, and Alice are children of the dead mother. Catherine has played an excellent role as a mother for those kids with all her love upon them, and you're quite amazed at this woman. However, you find it strange since she seems to treat Leon better than Steve, her own son. When you ask her about this, she told you that because Leon doesn't get along well with his brothers and sisters, and thus needs other people's love and care more, and she simply treats him with her love and care. You are very sad at the death of Steve, because Steve is a lovely kid as well as a caring person just like his mother. You feel sorry for Catherine and expect her to be a normal crazy mother over the death of her beloved baby. However, you found Catherine being extremely calm over the death of her own child. You guess that she tried to hide her sadness inside so that you will not worry too much about her. The host of this family died two days ago, and you knew the host like step son Steve more than Leon (elder brother) Keep this information secret unless you are asked. After dinner last night, you saw Alice and Steve talking in Steve's room, you don't know what they're talking about, but it seems that Steve are becoming worried over the issue they were discussing. Jim Use this information to introduce yourself. You are an artist, who is 21 years old now. You crazily fall in love with Lisa, but Lisa doesn't love you. She loves Leon. You are very jealous of Leon and has constantly told Lisa that Leon is not an ideal one to marry to. But Lisa wouldn't listen to you. After knowing the death of Steve, you quickly assumed that Leon must be the killer, and told Lisa what you thought. Lisa was really irritated by you and yelled at you to leave her alone. You were really heart-broken and with all your sad feelings, you drew a painting with Lisa and you inside just to wish that Lisa would finally be together with you. You gave the painting to Lisa as a present but Lisa just threw it away. You know it's almost impossible to make Lisa fall in love with you, but you really love her that you'll never give up in winning her heart. Keep this information secret unless you are asked. You are actually a very sentimental person. In a way, this helps you a lot in expressing your feelings excellently as an artist. But you are too sentimental that you tends to be in a sad mood all the time. You have a habit of going to a psychologist once a week, because the doctor can help you relieve a little bit. Recently, you consult the doctor more than before because you are occupied with the depression of not winning any love from Lisa.