Breaking Windows
by Richard Adams
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 9 scenes
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- 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 cast play out a murder mystery in two acts. (This has multiple settings, but indicated just by changes of furniture.)
- At the end of act 2, there is the opportunity for the audience to interrogate the suspects. (This is optional.)
- The audience, working in teams, write their suspicions on the accusation sheets.
- A final scripted scene reveals whodunnit.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 3 men and 7 women
- 6 sets including furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 70 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 10 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
Detective Inspector Ben Cleveleys gets a call about a break-in, but he's off-duty and sends Detective Sergeant Sandra Thornton what she finds is a web of dubious characters, some of them with serious grudges. There's
Jacob Gilmore, a seedy entrepreneur
Lola Gilmore, Jacob's wife
Candy Gilmore, their daughter
Antique dealer's widow Monica Goose, who made the original call
Jacob's housekeeper, Celia Morgan
Patricia Lemmon, Jacob's secretary
Jack Harris, a doctor
Sweetshop proprieter Mimosa ‘Mimsy’ Mumford, (who may not be a sweet shop proprietor!)
What starts as a low-key enquiry develops into Cleveley's speciality - homicide.