by Lesley Gunn
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- The cast perform a script
- The audience members question the cast
- 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 running the mystery
- Suggested timings
- The script for 3 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
- A murder mystery set on a stage. The acting company perform scripted scenes during which a murder takes place.
- Under the tutelage of a detective, the audience questions the suspects, then make their accusations.
- The solution is revealed in a final, brief, scripted scene.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 9 people, including at least 4 men and 4 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 55 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 10 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
On the stage, it's the final rehearsal of the North Undersfield Theatrical Society's performance of 'The Murder Mystery', but all is not well. Aside from the clash of egos, there's the small matter of the dead body... Appearing on stage at various points are:-
NUTS founder member Bob, who is, unfortunately, dead.
The scatty, loud-voiced Jenny.
Chris, the director of the murder mystery.
Felicity, the female lead.
Oscar, the male lead, hamming it up as usual.
The relatively reserved Amanda, Oscar’s wife.
The independent-minded front-of-house manager, Sophie.
Jason, a newcomer to the group.
In the chaos, there's a murder. Everyone has a motive. Can Inspector Abbot (with the help of the audience), discover whodunnit?