by Sarah Curran
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 2 scenes
- The Solution - 8 different endings (to allow multiple performances without spoilers!)
- An explanation of who dunnit and why!
- Additional Materials
- There's a quiz which might be used as a tie-breaker.
- 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 acting company play two scripted scenes during which a murder takes place.
- Under the direction of the compere, the audience teams interrogate the suspects (who improvise from character briefs and the script).
- The audience make their accusations, after which the guilty party is asked to step forward.
- (The Murder Mystery pack includes two sample solutions, but the cast can construct six others from the additional information supplied in the character briefs.)
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 10 people, including at least 3 men and 6 women
- One set comprising furniture and flats or backdrops
- 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?
Dressed to Kill features a drama group getting ready to stage their first ever fund-raising musical fashion show, and backstage everything is not going well.
Co-founder, and dreadful ham, Larry is irritating everyone with his Shakespeare quotes.
The other co-founder, Barbara keeps boasting about her daughter in musical theatre.
Bad-mannered, bossy, brash Shirley is pushing for her daughter to get the best roles.
Her daughter, Lisa, has an equal faith in her own talent.
Also promoting a daughter is Ruth, just as ambitious, but more subtle than Shirley
That daughter, Karen, doesn't like drama and would rather be anywhere than at a rehearsal.
The unsung hero of the group is 'Young' Peter. He's keen to retire, but he keeps everything running.
The loud, flamboyant Gerald has been prohibited from performing in the show.
The put-upon Marigold is a talented actress who rarely gets the chance to perform.
The tensions prove too much for one person - well, two people, one of whom dies as a consequence. It's up to the audience to unravel the mystery, under the guidance of the tenth member of the company, a Compere.