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
- Character Briefs for each character
- Character description
- Character history
- Motivation
- The Solution - 5 different endings (to allow multiple performances without spoilers!)
- An explanation of who dunnit and why!
| 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 three others from the additional information supplied in the character briefs.)
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 7 people, including at least 2 men and 4 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 45 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 1949 and a fledgling village theatre group is preparing to stage it's first production, but tensions are running high within the group and without.
The founder of the drama oup is Bunty Parlington-Dormer a recent arrival who has married into local aristocracy.
Bunty's new husband, the undramatic Robert Parlington-Dormer, is beginning to suspect that she married him for money.
Invited up from London, Nancy ‘Tuppence’ Briar is an old friend of Bunty's.
Robert's old housekeeper, Betty Buckland, left under a cloud, but has now joined the drama group.
‘Young’ George never wanted to be involved in drama, yet here he is.
Movie fan Joan Smith came to audition at the request of Betty.
Things get more dramatic when a member of the company is murdered. It's up to the audience to find the killer (with the help of a Compere who manages the event).