The Mouse Burger Murder
by Brian Ormrod
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
- The script for 3 scenes
- Character Briefs for each character
- Character description
- Character history
- Motivation
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- In additon to accusation sheets and note sheets, the audience pack includes character descriptions with space for photographs.
- 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
- After a (scripted) introduction, the cast perform two scripted scenes at the end of which there's a murder.
- There's a further scene in which motives are explored, though the DI fails to reach any conclusions.
- The audience get to interrogate the suspects before completing a form to make their accusations.
- The guilty party is revealed via a final scripted scene.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 8 to 10 people, including at least 2 men and 2 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 50 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 15 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
It's all change at the motorway service station burger bar. The old manager has left under a cloud and the staff - and some customers - are not happy.
The new manager is Lymm Carnforth
She's assisted by barrista Ken Dal.
Detective Inspector Hilton Park is lurking, trying to find a fleeing jewel thief.
Pest exterminator Corley Stafford is on hand, along with
Lake Killington, another of the Mice Guys.
Sandy Bach is one of the site cleaners.
Ford Knuts is the burger bar's trainee chef.
Customer Charnock Richard is there for his regular coffee with the old manager.
Optionally, there's a Fugitive trying to hide from the Detective Inspector.
The scenario also needs a Master of Ceremonies, but this role could be doubled by the Inspector.
As you'd expect from the title, someone does'nt make it beyond the second scene, but luckily the inspector's on hand to encourage the audience to work out whodunnit.