Murder Around the Clock
by Karen Banfield
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 preparing the mystery
- Guidelines for running the mystery
- Suggested timings
- The script for 4 scenes
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- Two letters, two school reports and an army newsletter.
- 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
- The cast peform four script scenes, during which, there is an unexpected death!
- The narrator hands out written clues and the audience prepare to interrogate the suspects.
- After the interrogation, the audience (working in teams) make their accusations.
- The guilty party is finally revealed through a series of scripted statements.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 7 people, including at least 2 men and 3 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 40 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 15 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
Welcome back to the 1950s and to Molly's Milkshake Bar, where there's a surprise in store for the staff and customers.
As you might expect, Molly Dawson runs the Milkshake Bar.
Molly's daughter, aspiring singer Bunty Dawson, works there, as does
Suzie Dawson, Bunty's younger sister.
Their neighbour, Next Door Ned, is hanging around, in a helpful way.
Then there's a talent scout, Sam, who has spotted Bunty's potential.
The unexpected arrival is Reg, Molly's husband, who's been missing, presumed dead.
The family reunion doesn't go as smoothly as they might have wished. For one thing, there's an inconvenient death.
It's all down to the audience to sort it out, with a narrator guiding the audience through the procedure of interrogating the suspects and making their accusations.