by Richard Adams
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- The cast perform a script
- The audience try to work out whodunnit
What Does Lazy Bee Scripts Provide?
Lazy Bee Scripts supplies a pack of material, including:-- An Overview for the Organiser, including
- Guidelines for preparing the mystery
- Guidelines for running the mystery
- Suggested timings
- The script for 8 scenes
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- Detective Sheets for the audience to submit their accusations
| What's an Interactive Murder Mystery? |
- A combination of drama from an acting company and detective work from the audience
- In this case
- Getting Away With It is a scripted murder mystery, played-out in three locations (which could all be part of a single set).
- The cast performs eight scripted scenes, before the audience is invited to submit solutions to the mystery.
- Finally, the cast plays a final scene in which the murderer is revealed.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 4 men and 4 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 60 minutes
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What's the Mystery Here?
DCI Ben Cleveleys is approaching retirement and, with the help of his Detective Sergeant, Sandra Thornton he wants to go out on a high. However, there are people in his life with other ideas:
For a start, there's Linda Cleveleys, Ben's long-suffering wife.
Then there's PC Graham Fisher, a police officer with a grudge against his superior.
Meanshile, Cleveleys is investigating Dudley Huggins a murder suspect.
Fighting Dudley's corner is his sister, Phyllis Hancock.
Forensic pathologist, Freddie Newbold is thrown into the mix.
Finally, there's Simone, a flirtatious café proprietor.
It turns out that Cleveleys' last case is more complicated than he expected, especially when there is another murder...