A Scenario for a Murder Mystery Event
by Really Horrid Productions
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs provided by Lazy Bee Scripts
- 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
- A "narrative arc" for the mystery
- Key plot points
- Essential events
- Character Briefs for each character
- Character description
- Character history
- Motivation
- The Solution
- An explanation of who dunnit and why!
- Additional Materials
- Printable table cards and a food menu for the event!
- Detective Sheets for the audience to submit their accusations
Note that Lazy Bee Scripts does not provide a script for the dialogue.
Because the actors are interacting with the audience, it is not possible to stick to a fixed script. Instead the actors improvise dialogue based on the "narrative arc."
| 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
- The event is a dinner to announce plans for a new extension to the venue in which you are performing. Details are left open enough for you to set this in a hotel, restaurant, golf club or similar with
- The extension is expected to include a top class restaurant and 50 five-star rooms
- The "audience" has the role of the people invited to the launch – valued customers and patrons of the venue
- As the actors progress with the unveiling of the plans, the plot mystery develops until one of the characters is found murdered...
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 7 to 8 people, including at least 3 men and 4 women
- No specific set or furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Improvised elements: 80 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
The time is the present Clint Plumb, manager of the venue has invited an audience of valued customers and a few special guests to announce the long anticipated extension plans.
In addition to Clint, other notable guests at the dinner include:
Brad Temple CEO Europe for the chain that owns the venue
Antoinette Wirral-Timpson the venue’s Sous-Chef.
Dorothy Barking the dotty previous owner of the venue and now a ‘regular’
Albert ‘Grizzly’ Bear Food franchise magnate!
Tanya Tucker Former waitress and now reality TV ‘celebrity’.
Shelly Beach Clint’s partner and Feng Shui Master.
What should be a cause for celebration quickly descends into chaos as what Clint reveals is not quite what everyone expected! Sordid secrets, recriminations and blackmail finally end in a double murder!
