Murder at the Micropub
by Gordon Lewis and Lynn Rushby
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- A mix of scripted elements and improvisation based on plot and character briefs
- A detective interrogates the suspects (who improvise their responses based on character briefs)
- 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 2 scenes
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- Detective Sheets for the audience to submit their accusations
| What's a Murder Mystery Event? |
- The audience members are brought together for a fictitious 'special event'. A murder takes place, which the participants are invited to solve.
- In this case
- A murder mystery set in a pub, with the conceit that the audience are there for the quiz night.
- The cast improvise chat as the audience arrive, then perform a scripted scene which ends with the discovery of a dead body.
- The police arrive for the second scene and question the suspects, then throw open the interrogation to the audience.
- The audience submit their accusations before the scripted denouement.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 10 people, including at least 3 men and 3 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 60 minutes
- Improvised elements: 15 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 10 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
It starts out as an ordinary evening at the Drunken Duck micropub, with staff, regulars and a pub quiz...
Sandra Short. the landlady
Mike Smith, the landlord
Regular customer, Ted Sondheim
The Italian chef, Giuseppe Campagnolo
Rival landlord Jack Hill, from the Crowing Cock
Penny Forthem, a local councillor
Turning up unexpectedly, there's Tanya Hyde, Mike's ex-wife
Ted's friend, Geoff Knowall.
All ordinary, give or take the arrival of Tanya. What makes this evening different, and brings in Inspector Hagley and Constable Racy, is the dead body.