A Dinner Theatre Mystery - where you might not want the dinner!
by Jane Morris
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- The cast perform a script
- The audience try to work out whodunnit
What Does Lazy Bee Scripts Provide?
Lazy Bee Scripts supplies a pack of material, including:-- The scripted scene
- The Solution
- An explanation of who dunnit and why!
- Additional Materials
- Seven pieces of written evidence (e-mail, letters, a newspaper clipping, and two official reports)
- A tie-breaker question (and the answer!)
- 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
- An evening at McMurdo Manor restaurant
- The cast are a mixture of restaurant staff and diners
- The audience are also diners at the restaurant (but take a tip from me and avoid the gazpacho)
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 5 men and 5 women
- No specific set or furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 20 minutes
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What's the Mystery Here?
It's not quite a typical evening at the McMurdo Manor restaurant. The staff and diners at the restaurant include
Ricardo Poitier - the Head Waiter
Alexander Ustinov - Owner of the Restaurant
Anton Warmington - MP for Ashton North (twin brother of Alexander)
Catherine Warmington - His wife
Rachel Stamford - Anton's secretary
Nick Stamford - Rachel's husband
Rebecca Dray - Waitress
Alfie Dray - Rebecca's uncle
Tatiyana Smirnov - a Russian beauty
Mrs Grey - A mystery diner
The evening's dining is interrupted when one of the company is found murdered...
The suspects are taken away for interrogation by the police, leaving a set of written clues from which the audience must decide whodunnit